The Price of Freedom
eBook - ePub

The Price of Freedom

Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall

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eBook - ePub

The Price of Freedom

Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall

About this book

Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their search ends at Checkpoint Charlie, the most heavily secured border crossing of the Berlin Wall. By hiding the fugitives in the trunk of a diplomat's car, Volker G. Heinz helps more than sixty East German citizens flee to the West. But when the Stasi picks up his trail, Heinz is arrested and interrogated for months in their secret headquarters - today a much visited memorial. In a spectacular move, following secret negotiations and a show trial, Heinz is swapped for two Soviet spies. Uniquely personal, this account of bravery and sacrifice is history at its most vivid.

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Information

Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781445692340
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Prologue
  4. Adventurer with a Sense of Justice
  5. Coded Messages
  6. Barracks and Carpet Dealers
  7. The First Escape
  8. Somebody Has to Know
  9. Giving the Leather Jackets the Slip
  10. Trapped
  11. Confessing without Betraying
  12. In the Two-Man Cell
  13. Backroom Deals
  14. A Ray of Hope
  15. The Mock Trial
  16. Attempts to Recruit
  17. Exchange in Herleshausen
  18. It Isn’t Always about People
  19. Slush Funds – and Military Overcoats on the Transit Route
  20. Moabit
  21. Epilogue
  22. Plates
  23. Appendix 1: Germany and Berlin in 1966
  24. Appendix 2: Fraternities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
  25. Appendix 3: Documentation
  26. Bibliography
  27. Picture Credits
  28. Glossary
  29. Key Locations and People
  30. Maps