The total number of trips from West German territory and West Berlin to the GDR and East Berlin in 1975 is around 7.7 million (compared with 2.7 million in 1971).
In the opposite direction, from the GDR to West Germany, 1.33 million pensioners (1971: 1 million) and 40,000 (1971: none) younger people have travelled across the border for urgent family reasons.less