Heinz Meixner defects from East Germany by driving through Checkpoint Charlie after removing his windshield, 1963

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In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, Heinz Meixner planned a daring escape from East to West Berlin, all in the name of love. While working in the communist east, he’d met Margarete Thurau and they’d fallen in love. But politics and concrete threatened to end the surround the emerging relationship before it […]

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