"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
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Friday, April 10, 2015
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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