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We Escaped
As bullets sprayed the water about
the icy waters of a canal to freedom
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Editors' Note: The wall that seals off East
Berlin is effective. Ninety-five percent of
the men, women, and children who have
tried to escape since it was erected last
August have failed. Yet attempts continue.
Tliis is the-story of a recent and success
ful -attempt. Karl Ernst is not the au
thor's real name; that must be withheld
to protect relatives still behind the wall.
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UST BERLIN'S wall of shame
Xl and tears cannot be imag
ined. You must see it as I have
with border guards patroling its
28-mile length of ghastly bricks,
concrete, and barbed wire.
Only then could you know why escape
seems impossible and only then could you
understand the feeling that compels an
imprisoned people to try to scale the eight
foot barrier in full view of Communist
submachine guns.
My wife Erika and I had talked for
years of fleeing to the West. Our apart
ment was only a few yards from the
American sector. We could have walked
across the street to freedom at any time.
But when the door of escape is open, it is
easy to put off such a decision.
Then, in the early-morning hours of
Aug. 13, 1961, the door slammed shut.
The evening before, we had been in West
Berlin celebrating my wife's birthday with
friends. On our way home after midnight,
we noticed nothing alarming. Four Vopos
(border policemen) were standing around
the check point looking bored as usual.
But two hours later Erika and I were
startled from our sleep by the ringing of
the telephone. A man who worked with
me was calling. He said: "Karl, the boss
wants you to assign me a car from the
motor pool. I have to install a telephone
line at the sector border. Do you have any
idea why?"
Switching on the radio, I tuned in RIAS
(Radio in the American Sector), which
we always listened to, and heard the in
credible news. By Communist decree, all
travel and communication with West Ber
lin were cut off. East German troops and
tanks were stationed at strategic positions
to enforce the order, and Soviet tanks and
infantry units had ringed the city to dis
courage an uprising.
Family Weekly, April 22, 1962
Erika and I knew we could postpone our
escape no longer. The question now was:
how can we get out?
The first thing we did was to send for
our seven-year-old daughter Helga, who
was staying with her grandparents in the
country. Then I took a "vacation" from
my job as telephone repairman and began
searching for a place along the border
where we could escape.
Every day I covered a new district. For
weeks I searched for some gap, some rent
in a fence, some unpatrolled garden, thick
et, or cemetery. But I found none.
I had almost given up hope of escape
when I played my last hunch. Near our
apartment there was a large factory com
pound that bordered the Teltow Canal. The
,15-foot-deep waterway forms part of the
frontier with the American sector. Al
though the Communists had strung a
barbed-wire fence six feet high along the
canal's bank, I still felt it could somehow
be used as an escape route.
Dressed in my telephone repairman's
uniform and carrying my tool kit, I visited
the factory area one morning as if on a
routine job. The guard let me enter the
grounds without difficulty.
Climhing a staircase in a building that
jutted over the canal, I found what I
was looking for. It was a window on the
water, large enough for a man to squeeze
through. Its individual panes were framed
by metal bars, but there was a center open
ing 25 inches wide and 40 inches high
which they had forgotten to seal off.
I went home and told Erika that we
would try our escape the next day. We
would leave everything behind except our
life's savings of 800 East German marks
(about$40), which I planned to stuff into
a bag and fasten beneath my clothing.
Early the next morning, I left the house
alone to avoid arousing suspicion. Later,
my wife and daughter followed.
At the factory gate, the guard I had
talked to the day before waved me by with
a nonchalant good morning. Erika and
Helga were following about 75 feet behind
me. As they approached the gate, the
guard asked Erika where she wanted to
go. She told him firmly, "I want to visit
the foreman of our street." She aroused
no suspicion. Foreman is a Communist
weasel word for neighborhood informer
them, a family of three swam through
By KARL ERNST as told to Helen Zotos
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Clutching my chi'J, I leaped into the icy
water. Erika carr.u hurting down ater us.
The guard signaled her to go through.
I met Erika and Helga at the window.
The previous day I had carefully pin
pointed its location for my wife on a rough
sketch I had drawn.
I was to jump first. Opening the win
dow, I climbed onto the sill. Erika handed
me the child.
Helga had been brave so far. But she
had never learned to swim, and when she
saw the water churning 18 feet below, she
began to cry and scream.
As long as 1 live I shall never forget
..clutching my child to my chest and
leaping through the air into the freezing
water. Erika came hurtling down after us.
Then the worst happened. The three of
us had hardly hit the water when machine
gun bullets began slamming into the canal
all around us. Helga gripped me so tightly
that my body ached. I was almost as ter
rified as she was, but I kept my eyes fixed
on the shore ahead and swam on.
We had agreed that once we started
there would be no turning back. We would
get through singly if not together. I
struggled on through the icy water, drag
ging Helga under one arm. She grew
heavier and heavier each moment. I felt
my strength giving way. Fifty yards to
freedom seemed an eternity away. But I
numbly clawed at the water and somehow
inched my way forward.
Suddenly the western shore drew near.
Friendly hands and arms came reaching
toward Helga and me. "Hurry," voices
said, "they are still firing guns over there."
With my last ounce of energy, I flung
Helga toward our rescuers and then sank
back into the water.
Later, in the hospital, I learned that
Erika had made it safely, too.
As this is written, Erika, Helga, and
I are at Marienfelde, the West Berlin re
ception center for refugees, waiting to be
flown into West Germany. My wife and
I are still young enough to start our lives
anew and to forget past horrors.
God willing, Helga will forget, too.
But right now she is down the hall play
ing "Flight" with four other refugee chil
dren. Two of them are the Vopos, the stair
way landing is the border, and beyond that
is the West. Whoever is slapped twice on
the back by the Vopos is dead. "Flight" is
a children's game, 1962-style!
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