User:Violetriga/inprogress/List of tunnels underneath the Berlin Wall

During the separation of East Germany and West Germany hundreds of people tried to escape in numerous tunnels underneath the Berlin Wall. When the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 the border was closed to all East Germans, many of whom desperately wanted to escape to the west. While some escapees went overground and died at the wall, others tried to dig tunnels in the sandy soil beneath.