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Chronicle 1988

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    • 1 March

      1988

      "Day trips" to East Berlin by West Berliners are now allowed to last up to 48 hours.
    • 3 March

      1988

      Meeting between state and party leader Erich Honecker and the chairman of the Conference of Evangelical Church Leaderships, Bishop Werner Leich.
    • 10 March

      1988

      "Only five percent chance of survival" is the story of three young men attempting to escape via the Glienicke Bridge, who manage to do so with a 7.5-ton truck: they break through the four obstacles of the border barrier system, and the border guards do not fire.

      Engine compartment torn open, front axle demolished, tire flat - but the men in the truck succeed in forcing a way through the border barrier system: First successful escape over the Glienicker Bridge, March 10, 1988
      Successful escape with a truck over the Glienicker bridge in Potsdam, March 10, 1988
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    • 31 March

      1988

      Agreement on an exchange of territory between West Berlin and the GDR. The some four-hectare "Lenné Triangle" in the Berlin district of Mitte, a piece of land that lies on the Western side of the Wall but has up to now belonged to East Berlin, is one of the areas affected.
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