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Berlin Wall Stretches but Yields to East German Exodus
A Berlin Investigative Committee report shows 466 East Germans were detained fleeing via Hungary Romania Bulgaria Poland Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia and the USSR over seven years. In half 1967 119 were arrested. Three would-be refugees died and three were shot at borders.
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Berlin
Berlin Wall
Investigative Committee of Free Jurists
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Poland
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
U.S.S.R
East Germany
Soviet Union
Finland