The ones who didn't get away: New book reveals the haunting pictures of people caught by the Stasi trying to flee East Germany across the Berlin Wall
- Discovered in the Stasi Archive in Berlin by photographer Arwed Messmer
- Show how secret police forced people trying to escape to re-enact method
- Include pictures of primitive floats, children concealed in cars and tunnels
- Secret police used the pictures for training and for use at trials as evidence
- Have now been compiled in a book called Reenactment MfS
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