June 21, 2004
HISTORY: Really, You Don't Want To
Dr. Weevil notes that there was at least one example of someone trying to cross the Berlin Wall in the other direction:
In the late '70s or early '80s The American Spectator reported that a young West German had tried repeatedly to do just that. After apprehending him for the 8th or 18th time (details are a little fuzzy now), the East German authorities demanded that the West German authorities put him in a mental hospital. It was, as TAS noted with cheerful contempt, a very revealing demand.