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»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« – Fluchthelfer Burkhart Veigel (Vortrag)
“Contemporary witnesses in conversation” – escape helper Burkhart Veigel (lecture)
Event by: Berliner Unterwelten e.V.
Location: Berliner Unterwelten - Seminarraum, Brunnenstraße 142, Berlin - Mitte
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Escape assistance and fate at the Berlin Wall
One of the most successful escape aides, Burkhart Veigel, reports in a lecture and subsequent conversation about his activities at the Berlin Wall, in which he was able to help around 650 refugees to freedom between 1961 and 1970. Three of his tours were never uncovered by the State Security (Stasi): the legendary “Doppelganger Tour”, in which an escape helper used a trick to go through border control twice and thus received a registered ID for a refugee - in this way around 100 people came to the West; the escapes in a Cadillac, in which one refugee was smuggled across the border, hidden in the dashboard - about 200 refugees in three years; and the “French Tour”, in which a French ally was able to bring up to 14 refugees across the border in one tour - around 250 refugees came from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany in four years.
Burkhart Veigel returned to Berlin in 2007 after 37 years as a practicing orthopedist and trauma surgeon in Stuttgart to research and write about the topic of escape and escape assistance. This resulted in, among other things, two books, "Paths through the Wall - Escape Aid and Stasi between East and West" and "FREI", a novel about East-West love, which he wrote together with his wife, the writer Roswitha Quadflieg.
At the end of the event there is time for selling and signing books.
Further information about the person: www.wandelhilfe.de
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Price: 7 euros
Location: Brunnenstraße 142, 10115 Berlin (near Bernauer subway station Street)
Review: https://weddingweiser.de/zeitzeugvortrag-wandelhelfer/
One of the most successful escape aides, Burkhart Veigel, reports in a lecture and subsequent conversation about his activities at the Berlin Wall, in which he was able to help around 650 refugees to freedom between 1961 and 1970. Three of his tours were never uncovered by the State Security (Stasi): the legendary “Doppelganger Tour”, in which an escape helper used a trick to go through border control twice and thus received a registered ID for a refugee - in this way around 100 people came to the West; the escapes in a Cadillac, in which one refugee was smuggled across the border, hidden in the dashboard - about 200 refugees in three years; and the “French Tour”, in which a French ally was able to bring up to 14 refugees across the border in one tour - around 250 refugees came from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany in four years.
Burkhart Veigel returned to Berlin in 2007 after 37 years as a practicing orthopedist and trauma surgeon in Stuttgart to research and write about the topic of escape and escape assistance. This resulted in, among other things, two books, "Paths through the Wall - Escape Aid and Stasi between East and West" and "FREI", a novel about East-West love, which he wrote together with his wife, the writer Roswitha Quadflieg.
At the end of the event there is time for selling and signing books.
Further information about the person: www.wandelhilfe.de
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Price: 7 euros
Location: Brunnenstraße 142, 10115 Berlin (near Bernauer subway station Street)
Review: https://weddingweiser.de/zeitzeugvortrag-wandelhelfer/