Peter Strelzyk & Guenter Wetzel flew their families out of East Germany using this homemade device
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October 11, 2008  ... Venetian prison Casanova Peter Strelzyk & Guenter Wetzel flew their families out of East Germany using this homemade device hot air balloon;balloon When...
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Night Crossing - Wikipedia  Night Crossing is a 1982 American drama film starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Beau Bridges. The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who on September 16, 1979 attempted escape from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon ... On July 3, 1979, the four members of the Strelzyk family attempt to fly out.
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J! Archive - Show #5011, aired 2006-05-29  5 RHYMES. (Alex: Each correct response will rhyme with the word "five".) ... Peter Strelzyk & Guenter Wetzel flew their families out of East Germany using this homemade device...
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Escaping the Berlin Wall by hot air balloon - placetobe.info  The Wetzel and Strelzyk families were fed up with life in the GDR because they ... an hot air balloon themselves to escape from East Germany to West Germany. ... it would be to dangerous to continue escaping with the home made balloon. ... families, Gunter Wetzel and his wife Petra, their two boys and Peter Strelzyk, his...
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Up in the Air  Damn Interesting  Aug 3, 2015 ... Two families come up with an ambitious and dangerous plan to ... But not Gnter Wetzel. ... Wetzel and his friend H. Peter Strelzyk and their families had been ... began discussing their shared desire to get out of East Germany. .... Before beginning construction of a new balloon, Wetzel fashioned a device...
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Summary/Reviews: My invented country :  Here are the almost mythic figures of a Chilean family -- grandparents and ... Although she claims to have been an outsider in her native land -- "I never fit in anywhere, ... The military coup and violent death of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, .... When he was overthrown in the coup of 1973, she fled Chile, moving to...
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Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence 19211960 by ... - JStor  This collection of Pasternak's letters to his parents and sisters after they left ... Leonid and Rosalia Pasternak left Moscow in 1921 for medical treatment in Berlin...
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Chris Gueffroy - Wikipedia  Chris Gueffroy (21 June 1968  6 February 1989) was the last person to be shot while trying to escape from East Berlin to West ... In September 1989 Gaudian was freed on bail by the East German government, and on 17 ... Chris Gueffroy is often erroneously named as the last person to die in the attempt to cross the wall,...
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MEMORIAL TO CHRIS GUEFFROY, BERLIN | Cold war sites  Memorial stone to Chris Gueffroy, the last person to die trying to escape across the ... 1989) was the last person to be shot while trying to escape to West Berlin ... that he wanted to avoid his approaching military service in the East German Army. ... Climbing the last fence, they were discovered and came under fire from the...
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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution - National Security Archive  Forty-six years ago, at 4:15 a.m. on November 4, 1956, Soviet forces launched a ... flown secretly from Moscow to the city of Szolnok, 60 miles southeast of the capital, ... equality in relations between the USSR and its East European satellites. .... in addition to the significant number of items that appear here for the first time in...
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Farewell ceremony at the Airport of Balice - Krakow, (17 June 1999)  Jun 17, 1999 ... Each time I visit Poland I am confirmed in the conviction that there is no lack of ... it has been granted to us to return to the places, events and people who bear ... in our homeland, the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God and his ... Remembering the price he had to pay for the gift of the faith which he...
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Left to their own devices | Little Atoms  Dec 27, 2015 ... And the hardline Communist Party of Britain, the main Stalinist ... The CPB still had a daily paper, the Morning Star, though hardly anyone read it any more. ... or the machinations of mayor of London Ken Livingstone's office, in both of which ... 2. War and peace. The destruction of the twin towers of the World...
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Print - History.com  June 26, 1948 : U.S. begins Berlin Airlift ... When World War II ended in 1945, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, ... of Berlin and its 2 million people were deprived of food, heating fuel and other crucial supplies. ... a total delivery of more than 1.5 million tons of supplies and a total cost of over $224 million.
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The Rise Of The US Surveillance State & The Jews Behind It | Real ...  Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 547; Priest River ID 83856 ... US border official, Michael Kostelnik, when describing future drone operations during the ... The Jew-inspired US Homeland Security spy-on-you apparatus that's who. .... and the Street Evangelism would have come to a SCREECHING HALT a long time ago.
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Operation Entebbe - Wikipedia  Operation Entebbe was a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers had been hijacked by ... Just after takeoff, the flight was hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular...
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German Instrument of Surrender - Wikipedia  The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe. The definitive text was ... The second part, articles 1-5, related to the military surrender by the German High .... Dnitz and Keitel were resolved against issuing any orders to surrender to Soviet forces, both from undiminished anti-Bolshevism; but also...
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Marie Curie - Big History Project  of five children, and both of her parents were educators: Her father taught math and physics, and her mother was headmistress of a private school for girls. ... would have to leave Poland to further her studies, and she would have to .... about radioactivity was in detecting new types of atoms. But the .... family home becomes.
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jeopardy/2767_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  GOULASH | Freedom One was the name given to the Air Force plane that brought these 52 people back to the U.S. in Jan. '81 | the Iranian hostages.
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Amazon.com: Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident ...  Amazon.com: Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident ... gives you a private account of somebody that was deeply involved in the U-2 Cold War ... On 1-May, 1960, CIA U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR and ... I've seen the wreckage of his U-2 spy plane, still on exhibit in the "Cold War"...
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German Tilsit | Jet.com  Named after a town in East Prussia, Tilsit was invented by homesick Dutch immigrants trying to recreate Gouda. Though they were unable to replicate their...
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German reunification - Wikipedia  The German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process in 1990 in ... It caused an exodus of thousands of East Germans fleeing to West Germany and Austria via Hungary. .... On 28 November 1989two weeks after the fall of the Berlin WallWest German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced a...