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The escape

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Helena Merriman tells the true story of a man who dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want to be a part of this new world.鈥 Joachim is on holiday in East Germany when he hears Berlin is to be divided. The wall is built and the escapes begin. Joachim has to decide whether he'll be among them.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Helena Merriman tells the extraordinary true story of a man who dug a tunnel into the East, right under the feet of border guards, to help friends, family and strangers escape. It鈥檚 also the story of the Stasi spy who betrays the tunnel, the American TV network which funds it and the love that develops between refugees who find freedom together.

The series is based on original interviews with the survivors as well as thousands of documents from the Stasi archives and recordings from the tunnel.

18 minutes

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Sun 23 Feb 2020 22:32GMT

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