In their order banning traffic, the Communists did not include Western military vehicles and they were free to cross the border of divided Berlin as before. The East German police were stung by ...

Even the outrageously priced Wartburg car (selling in East Germany for ... Soviet sector check point of Schoenfeld in Berlin, East German police swarmed everywhere in and alongside the train.

BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East Berlin is a city under siege. I saw the soldiers, tanks, and armed police. I felt the fear. My 90-minute taxi ride through East Berlin showed me as many police ...

However, they managed to reach the West in their second try, making it out of the country in a highly dramatic feat just before the East German police caught ... retrained as a car mechanic ...

East Germans fled the new regime in droves ... his gun clattering to the ground as he was whisked into a waiting West German police car. My nerves were at a breaking point. I was very afraid.

The Polish engine disengaged from the passenger cars with rude jolts to await ... After a long wait with tension mounting, East German police, aggressively armed, boarded the lifeless train ...