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Escape fromBerlinTheBerlin Walldivided a city for almost 30years, separating families and resulting inhundreds of deaths. You will take on the role ofan East Berlin resident who must escape tofreedominthe West.Inorder to do so, you must learn four pieces oftop-secret information:•The location of the escape•Yourcontact for the escape•The date and time to meet there•The secret code word to enterTo find this information and escape from East Berlin, you first must learn as much as you can about thewall that divides your city.You will read 9 articles to learn about the Wall and those who made successful escapes.These articles are:•Plans for a Wall Around Berlin•The Building of The Berlin Wall•The Death Strip•Checkpoint Charlie•Berlin Wall Graffiti•Escaping in Style with a Convertible•A Hot Air Balloon Escape•Escaping with a Stolen Tank•Digging a Tunnel Into East BerlinAfter reading each article, you will need to decipher various clues that will lead you to the 4 pieces ofinformation you need to escape. The articles can be completed in any order, but only when you have allthe answers decoded can you make your escape by completing the Top Secret EscapeInfo!

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Escape from BerlinDirections:Below are links to 9 readingsonthe Berlin Wall. Each includes 4 questions. Record each responseinthe spaces below placing one letter in each box. Boxes that are greyed out are either spaces or not used. Theletters in the lightly-shaded squares can then be placed in the "Top Secret Escape Information" Box at the end togive you the four pieces of information that you need to escape Berlin.Checkpoint CharlieLocation ClueengineersPerson Clueeag1ecafDate & Time Clue1961Secret Code Cluedip10matse

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Place the letters from the shaded squares into the spaces below to reveal the top-secret information thatwill help you escape East Berlin!Top Secret Escape informationEscape LocationKr■Contact PersonL■Date and Time■Secret Code Word

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Plans for a wall Around west BerlinSoviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht, one of thefounders of East Germany, were close allies. But which of thetwo men was responsible for the construction of the Berlin Wall?Never had a regime locked up its own population. The borderbetween the two Germanys had been sealed off for some time,but when the Wall went up, the loophole into West Berlin,through which East Germans had been able to flee to WestGermany, was also closed.InI960 alone, roughly 200,000 East Germans fled from emptysupermarket shelves --andthe Stasi secret police -to WestGermany. The two leaders met on August 1, 1961to discussways of stopping the exodus of East Germans through Berlin.Khrushchev had an idea of taking advantage of tensions withthe West and laying an "iron ring around Berlin." Hepointed outthat "many engineers" had already left East Germany, and thatsomething had to be done.Ulbricht was alsoinfavor of walling in the East Germans because, ashe said, "there are many issues that cannot be resolved with an openborder.'1Atthe meeting, a furious Khrushchev toldUlbricht:"WhenIattendedyour party convention two years ago, everything was fine. Whathappened? You wanted to pull ahead of West Germany by 1961/62."Ulbricht objected. "The population is making demands that cannot bemet."He shifted the blame for East Germany's poor economy to hiscomrades from Poland and Bulgaria, who -- contrary to agreements --were supplying neither steelnorcoal. But most ofall,he said,itwasthefaultof the West German government. Ulbricht claimed they were"preparing an uprising to take place in the fall of 1961.""We will give you one or two weeks to make the necessary economic preparations," Khrushchev toldhim, ’Then you will convene the parliament and issue the following communique: 'Beginning tomorrow,checkpoints will be erected and transit will be prohibited. Anyone who wishes to cross the border can doso only with the permission of certain authorities of the German Democratic Republic [East Germany].."Khrushchev wanted to convince East Germans that the wall would protect them from Western spies, andhe said that the Germans would understand. But even he didn’t appear to believe his own propaganda.WhenUlbrichttoldhimthat he wanted to bringhiseconomic experts into the loop, Khrushchev advisedhim otherwise. "You should not explain anything before the introduction of the new border regime. Itwould only strengthen the flow of people leaving."Source: http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110206

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