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How the Berlin Wall Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Frida Schultz and the Berlin Wall

There was a street called Bear Nowher Street where there were literally apartments that were straddling the Berlin wall. Eventually they evicted all those people living the apartments and sealed up the windows because people would go in the front door and leave the back door. They bricked up the first story stuff and I guess vastly underestimated the will of people who wanted to defect. And what's cool is West Berliners would frequently help defectors.

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