Tunnel 57

A refugee tells rescuers that her group may have been followed on its way to Tunnel 57, through which 57 East Berlin citizens escaped to the Western sector of the city on 3rd and 4th October 1964. On the left a man is holding a switch in the ceiling, which operates a winch, bringing escapees down the shaft at the tunnel entrance. The tunnel was dug from West to East by a group of 20 students led by Joachim Neumann, from a disused bakery building on Bernauer Strasse, under the Berlin Wall, to a building 145 metres away on Strelitzer Strasse in East Berlin. (Photo by Fuchs/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)