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Tunnel 57

99% Invisible

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The Story of the Berlin Wall

In 1961, East Germany closed its border to West Berlin with a wall. In the decade that followed, more than 2 million people fled from east to west. This is a story about one design to get through it, or really underneath it. The tunnel had a diameter of less than one square meter.

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