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there is no accepted answer to this question estimates vary from 79 (or so) to 1200
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoThere is no exact count, but the figure ranges between 100 and over 200 people. The first death was due to trauma received after the lady jumped out of her 3rd story apartment window.
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∙ 8y agoNo one knows. The official count is 138, but it was a LOT higher than that.
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What happened to the people who were caught trying to escape East Germany?
They were set free
What was the Berlin wall built to do?
Keep people in East Germany, but they found ways to escape.
What imaginary line separated east and West Germany?
The iron curtain ("from the Baltic in the north to the Adriatic in the south") was not imaginary. Many people died trying to flee East Germany.
What was it like to escape west Berlin?
Very few people were trying to escape West Berlin; West Berlin was part of democratic West Germany. Conversely, many East Germans were trying to flee to West Berlin in order to find freedom. There were some West Germans who wanted to defect to East Germany for spying purposes or because they had received lucrative offers from the East German government and, oftentimes, they simply walked up to the border and were taken in by East Germany; East Germany was not opposed to new people coming in, but about people leaving.To read about fleeing East Berlin, please see this Related Question: What was it like to escape East Berlin?
Why do North Korean people try to escape to other countries?
about the same reason East German people tried to escape to West Germany. FREEDOM of body, mind and thought......................as opposed to slavery
How did you get into west Berlin if it was completely surrounded by East Germany?
escape attempts
Why did the people from east Germany go towards West Germany?
people in the east Germany thought that life in west Germany is more comfortable than in the east Germany
Why did people in east Germany risk their lives trying to cross over to West Germany?
They wanted to see their dear ones, separated from them by the Berlin Wall.
Why did the east side not permit people to approach the Berlin Wall?
They were worried that the people would try to escape over to West Germany. That's why soldiers were posted to shoot anyone who dared to come around. The communists wanted to keep their power over East Germany safe.
What happend to east berliners who tried to escape?
Most East Berliners who were trying to escape were shot or imprisoned; only the lucky ones survived the treacherous and, mostly, deadly dash to freedom.
What were many Americans trying to escape when they migrated from the large cities in the east?
A chance to own land
The Berlin Wall how did it start?
The Berlin wall started when Germany was divided up into 4 section 1 for the U.S 1 for the USSR 1 for France and 1 for Britain then after that the people in east Berlin were trying to escape communism by fleeing into the western side of Germany the communist were angry and decided to built a wall stopping all from crossing the boarder.
