Secret Escapes Through the Ghost Stations of Divided Berlin
When I think back to Berlin in the 1970s, I can still feel that very special, oppressive air. It was a city that pulsed, that seethed—and that was torn into two completely different worlds by a merciless wall of concrete and barbed wire.
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When I think back to Berlin in the 1970s, I can still feel that very special, oppressive air. It was a city that pulsed, that seethed—and that was torn into two completely different worlds by a merciless wall of concrete and barbed wire.
For me, this Berlin was not just a backdrop from a history book. It was the stage of my hardest fight for survival and the place where my youth took place—or rather, where it was stolen from me.
When I arrived from Yugoslavia in April 1971, full of hope at just 15 years old, I dreamed of training to become a television technician. I dreamed of a future. The reality that welcomed me was quite different: illegal, merciless, bone-crushing labor in a sawmill. There were years of dust, sweat, and the constant fear of being discovered.
But amidst this gloom, I searched for freedom. And of all places, I found it where the danger was greatest: on the way to East Berlin.
This book takes you along on my very personal, secret escapes. It guides you through the dark subway tunnels beneath heavily guarded borders. You will stand with me on the eerie, dimly lit ghost stations where time seemed to stand still while soldiers patrolled above. You will feel the thrill when the West was behind me and a completely different world emerged before me—full of contrasts, mysterious encounters in East Berlin bars, and moments that shaped my life forever.
What you are reading here is not a theoretical history lesson. It is my life story. Unvarnished, emotional, and absolutely real. It is the story of a young man who learned not to let his freedom be taken away—no matter how high the walls around him were.
Join me on this journey through time.
CHAPTER 1: The Years of Slave Labor (1971–1975) and the Path to Freedom
A False Promise
In the very year I was absolutely enjoying school, my father pulled me out of high school and my brother out of the military academy in our home country of Yugoslavia, bringing us to West Berlin.
He promised us that we would train to become television technicians in West Berlin.
When we arrived in West Berlin on April 17, 1971, we actually went to Siemens, one of the largest companies in Germany. The manager responsible for training young people told my father: “Let your children go to school to learn the German language. Then they can start training as television technicians next year.”
The reason for this statement was that my brother couldn’t speak any German at all. However, because I had attended a high school where I learned four different languages, my German was already quite good.
The Apocalypse in the Sawmill
Instead of taking us to school, our father put us kids to work in the sawmill where he himself was employed.
This was a catastrophe for me—like an apocalypse. All the people working there were old, uneducated, muscular men. In 1971, heavy physical labor for minors was strictly forbidden in Germany. My brother was 17 at the time; I was barely 15.
Back then, the age of majority in Germany was 21—only from that age was such grueling work permitted. Had the police caught us doing this heavy labor, the company would have had to pay a hefty fine for child labor.
The Accident in Deep Snow
We toiled twelve hours a day. Our shift started at six in the morning and ended at six in the evening. In the winter, we never saw daylight. It was winter anyway, dark, and there was a lot of snow.
One day, I stepped on a rusty nail. It pierced completely through my foot and came out the top. I had stepped on a board hidden under four inches of snow, and when I lifted my foot, the board came up with it.
I went to my father. They had a massive problem because taking an injured child to the doctor would have exposed their illegal labor practices. It took them two hours to finally decide to take me to a doctor. I was in terrible pain, sweating, deathly pale, and bleeding heavily.
To this day, I don’t know exactly how they managed and covered it up. In any case, I was given a tetanus shot that day and told I had to get a booster the following year, and every ten years after that.
The company got away without a fine, simply because I had to continue working there as a slave afterward. I saw almost none of the money I earned.
Shame Behind the Chain-Link Fence
While German children received pocket money from their parents for school, my father handed me only a tiny fraction of my wages each week. He kept the rest for himself and saved it.
In the summer, when girls wanted to go to the beach, they had to walk past the sawmill’s chain-link fence. If I saw them coming toward me from a distance, I was deeply ashamed that, as a child, I had to do such dirty, hard work.
So, I hid from their view so they couldn’t see me. Only in the evening, after 6:00 PM, when my shift was over, would I go to the beach myself.
In this way, six of the most important years of my life—the time between my 15th and 21st birthdays—were stolen and destroyed. It feels as if I didn’t exist at all during this formative phase of my life. While my generation went to university and studied, I was a slave—the only things missing were the chains on my legs. I never forgave my parents for this.
Three Days to Freedom
When I returned from the army, I made a final decision. On the first day, I found my own apartment.
On the second day, the fight for my independence began: I visited five different banks in a row, and all five refused me a loan. They didn’t believe in me. Only the sixth bank was I able to convince. Because I could prove I had a steady job, they finally believed that I would be capable of paying back a loan of 2,500 DM.
On the third day, the Masling furniture store, located directly across the street, delivered all my furnishings: A French bed, a lounge chair, a wardrobe, a carpet, and curtains were lugged completely over to my place. On the evening of that third day, I left my parents forever. I was finally free.
CHAPTER 2: The Encounter at Alexanderplatz
The Checkpoint at Checkpoint Charlie
From the East German border station at Friedrichstraße, the subway ran straight into the West. The first station on the way to West Berlin, which was already in the American sector, was Kochstraße at the legendary Checkpoint Charlie.
Whenever I got off the subway there, the American flag waved above the checkpoint. This border crossing was open to cars and pedestrians. Since I was a foreigner, I could easily cross the US sector at this checkpoint on foot to get to East Berlin.
Life in the Island City of West Berlin
Our part of West Berlin was completely surrounded by the Wall. Just as the entire GDR (East Germany) was enclosed by borders, West Berlin lay right in the middle of East German territory.
When we traveled by car to my home country of Yugoslavia, we first had to show our passports at the West Berlin border. The border to East Germany was only 150 meters further. From West Berlin to the West German federal border, it was a 280-kilometer drive along the transit route. A strict speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour applied on this route.
Escape to the East (Summer 1971)
Since I had hardly any money due to my father’s exploitation, there wasn’t much I could do in West Berlin.
In the summer of 1971, a boy my age—whom I had met by chance and who was also from my home country—convinced me to go to East Berlin. He had arrived in Berlin half a year before me and already had experience with the East.
The first time I crossed the border, I realized that on the other side of Berlin, in the East, I could have fun for a whole day with very little money. This drove me to cross the border from West to East Berlin over and over again.
Right in the middle of West Berlin, I would exchange my money illegally: At an official exchange office, I would give 9 West Marks and receive 100 East Marks on the black market or through roundabout ways.
Taking the Subway to the East
When crossing the border, I had to hide this Eastern money carefully so the East German customs wouldn’t find it. Back then, my hair was long, almost like Jimi Hendrix’s. So, I hid the 100 East Marks right in the middle of my mane.
If the East German customs had found the money, they would have confiscated it and, of course, denied me entry into East Berlin. They might even have thrown me in jail. I am glad I was spared that experience; otherwise, I would have ended up in prison for the first time in my life. I was lucky: they didn’t search me once at the border.
The Forbidden Encounter
In East Berlin, it felt like there was a police officer standing on every corner. One day, I was standing in the middle of the city on Alexanderplatz with a boy and four girls. They had all come to the capital as visitors from other parts of the GDR. I had heard from acquaintances beforehand that, as a foreigner, I was under no circumstances allowed to talk to young people from the GDR. I wanted to see if that was really true, and I tempted fate.
When I saw a police officer walking directly toward us from a distance, I reacted with lightning speed: In the heat of the moment, I handed all my money to one of the girls so the People’s Police (Volkspolizei) wouldn’t find it on me.
But the policeman didn’t hesitate—he arrested me on the spot and took me away.
Naked in the Interrogation Room
The policeman led me down into a subway station and brought me into an empty room set up specifically for such inspections. He asked me directly if I was carrying illegal East German money. I answered briefly and firmly: “No.”
At that, I was forced to strip completely naked. He searched me and my clothes down to the smallest detail. When he finally had to accept, to his disappointment, that he could find absolutely nothing—the money was safely with the girl—he gave up. He escorted me to the border area of the subway station and officially kicked me out of the GDR.
The Immediate Return
No sooner had I crossed the border from East back to West Berlin than I didn’t hesitate for a second. I got on the next train and rode straight to the following station: the American sector at Checkpoint Charlie. I got out and immediately walked back across the border into East Berlin! I wasn’t going to be chased away that easily.
I hadn’t expected to see the four girls and the boy again. More than an hour had passed, and they must have firmly believed that I was in jail for the day or gone for good. When I finally arrived back at the spot on Alexanderplatz, they had—completely understandably—already left the square.
Since I had left all my money with the girl in the commotion and was now completely broke, I had no choice but to head home. So, I turned around and took the train back to West Berlin.
THE RIDE THROUGH THE UNDERWORLD
If I wanted to travel to East Berlin in 1971, I first took the West Berlin subway for three stops. It was a subway line that ran from West Berlin underneath East Berlin, only to resurface in the West shortly after. Normally, the subway traveled quite fast.
Outside in the tunnel, it was pitch black; you could see absolutely nothing. But as soon as the train noticeably slowed down, we knew: At that moment, the first car with the driver was crossing the border into the East sector—we were approaching the border zone.
A RIDE ON DILAPIDATED TRACKS
As soon as we reached the East German sector underground, the cars began to rock so violently on the tracks that it felt like sitting in an off-road vehicle. When the train was full and you had to stand, the extreme jolting made me think every time that the car would derail at any moment. We had to hold on tightly to the round, shiny silver bars above our heads. If you didn’t, you inevitably fell over, risking crashing into the people next to you.
The cars seemed to literally fly over the tracks. Apparently, these tracks beneath East Berlin belonged to the GDR, but only trains from West Berlin ran on them. Trains from East Berlin didn’t operate here. There were constant service interruptions due to track repairs.
I don’t know whether the authorities in the East intentionally wanted to harass the West with the dilapidated tracks, or if they simply lacked the money for maintenance. I suspect the latter: They just didn’t have the money for repairs. This slowed-down section of track was brightly lit, and I could clearly see the completely run-down, decaying walls in the tunnel.
THE EERIE GHOST STATIONS
When the train finally crawled along at a walking pace, we passengers in the middle or at the end of the long train knew exactly what was happening: At that moment, the front part of the train, where the driver sat, was reaching the brightly lit ghost station (Geisterbahnhof).
Since the subways, with their roughly fifteen cars, were very long and we were in the middle or back, it took several minutes at a walking pace until we in the last car also reached the brightly lit ghost station. Because East Berliners were strictly forbidden from entering these stations, they were completely deserted.
THE GUARDED GHOST STATIONS
On both sides of the subway station stood border guards, holding their rifles ready to fire in front of their bodies. Eight soldiers on one side, and eight on the other. As the train crawled past them at a walking pace, the soldiers watched us with dark, absolutely menacing glares.
Only when the last car of the train had left the station did the subway accelerate again—we were now on our way back to West Berlin.
During the journey through the East Berlin sector, the train only stopped once: at the Friedrichstraße border crossing. However, only people who officially wanted to cross the border or who had just been in East Berlin got on and off here. For normal GDR citizens, entering this border station was strictly prohibited.
From this Friedrichstraße border crossing, the next subway station on the way to West Berlin was already the American sector at Checkpoint Charlie. Whenever I got off the subway there, the American flag hung over the checkpoint. At this US sector, I could also cross the border into East Berlin on foot.
THE BORDER CROSSING AT CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
When we walked over to East Berlin, the American soldiers didn’t care at all who was leaving the West. We only had to show our passports at the East German customs on the eastern side.
Since Yugoslavia was the only country whose citizens didn’t need a visa, the border guards in the East always gave us a small, separate piece of paper with a stamp on it. It looked like a visa, but it was just a simple piece of paper. This small stamped paper, bearing the date and exact time, was not to be lost under any circumstances. However, it was easy to keep track of—I simply placed it in the middle of my passport. When I returned, the customs officers opened the passport and took the paper back out. Had I lost it, I likely would have been marked with a red stamp and punished with an entry ban to the country.
After the East German customs had reclaimed their stamped paper at the border, I walked about 30 meters past barriers made of cross-grid bars and steel wire. The American guards didn’t handle my Yugoslavian passport a single time. They simply waved me through—a sign that everything was fine.
When cars from West Berlin wanted to drive into the East, the entrances were designed in the exact same way: A few meters straight ahead, a wall stood in the way, then you had to turn a few meters to the right, then another wall stood in the way, and the whole thing repeated itself several times. Only then did you reach the East German customs. This extreme zigzag course between the concrete walls was designed to prevent cars from East Berlin from crashing through the border at high speed to escape to the West.
RESTAURANTS IN EAST BERLIN
Normal food in East Berlin had absolutely no quality and simply didn’t taste good, no matter what you ordered. However, right in the middle of the city, there were special specialty restaurants, for example from Hungary or Bulgaria. The GDR government had strictly forbidden its own citizens from entering some of these establishments. But since I had friends in the East and, as a West Berliner, was allowed to enter these restaurants, I simply showed my passport and invited my East Berlin friends to eat.
They were completely surprised by how incredibly good the food tasted in these restaurants that were banned for them, and how high the quality was. Actually, the GDR government demanded that we exchange our West money one-to-one at the border. But it was exactly in these international restaurants that we could illegally exchange our Western currency on the black market. Of course, this was strictly forbidden, but we got even better exchange rates there than in the official exchange offices in West Berlin.
LANGUAGE AS A KEY IN THE EAST
If there was one thing I loved above all else in my youth, it was foreign languages. In school, I always had the top grade in Russian. I knew that young people in East Berlin also had to learn Russian in school—just as I did back then in my home country of Yugoslavia.
My German was good, but my Russian was much better at the time. When I started speaking Russian in East Berlin, girls often wanted nothing to do with me at first. But as soon as I explained to them in Russian that I was from Yugoslavia, everything changed: The girls immediately gave me a smile, showed great interest, and were incredibly friendly. With my 100 East Marks in my pocket, I had a lot of fun all day long at the city’s fairs and carnivals.
MY EMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE EAST
Over the years, I made many friends in East Berlin. Back then, I felt deep compassion for these people. As a Yugoslavian, the whole world was open to me; I could travel wherever I wanted. My friends from the GDR were not allowed to do that. They could travel to other communist countries, but Western Europe and, of all places, my home country of Yugoslavia, were absolutely taboo for them. I felt incredibly sorry for my friends from the East, but they were simply happy to have a foreigner like me as a friend.
MY PRIVILEGE AS A YUGOSLAVIAN
My home country of Yugoslavia was a non-aligned state at the time—we belonged neither to the Eastern Warsaw Pact nor to the Western NATO. Since our President Tito was the first head of state to officially recognize the GDR as a democratic state, East German politics were very favorably disposed toward our country.
When we, as Yugoslavian citizens, crossed the border into East Berlin, we had the great privilege of merely having to show our passports. Unlike citizens of all other countries, we did not need a visa.
West Germans and foreigners from other nations had to painstakingly apply for a visa in advance—and, of course, pay for it. Every time they wanted to cross the border to spend even a single day in the GDR or East Berlin, they had to submit the application at least three days in advance. They paid for the visa and were only allowed to go to East Berlin for that one day. If they came back and wanted to go over again the very next day, they couldn’t—they had to submit a new application three days in advance again.
We Yugoslavians, on the other hand, could go over for free every single day. We were allowed to stay there for 24 hours at a time. When we left East Berlin, crossed the border, and were back in the West, we could theoretically turn around immediately and re-enter East Berlin without a visa. For me as a teenager, that was brilliant.
With the meager pocket money my father gave me, there wasn’t much I could do in West Berlin. That was the main reason why I preferred spending my free time with little money in the eastern part of the city. I usually crossed the border twice a week.
THE BAD EXCHANGE RATE FOR OTHER VISITORS
A West Berliner in the 1970s used his Yugoslavian passport to enter East Berlin as a privileged visitor without a visa and take advantage of cheap opportunities there. In international restaurants, which were often closed to GDR citizens, he illegally exchanged money and invited East Berlin friends, while using his Russian skills to make contacts.
Germans and all other foreign visitors were required to make a minimum exchange of 25 West Marks at the border. But the official exchange rate was extremely bad: They gave 25 West Marks at the border and received exactly 25 East Marks back in a one-to-one ratio. One West Mark was therefore only worth one East Mark there.
When I secretly exchanged my money in West Berlin, on the other hand, I only had to shell out 12 West Marks for a whopping 100 East Marks.
CHAPTER 3: The Transit Route and the Traffic Light Trap
Mathematical Surveillance
When we drove from West Berlin along the transit route through the GDR, the border guards stamped our passports upon entry. When we left the country at the other checkpoint, they checked these stamps down to the minute. Had we driven too fast, they could have calculated it instantly based on the elapsed time in the passport—and we would have been severely punished.
Since we knew how mercilessly high the fines were in the East, we strictly adhered to the 100 km/h speed limit. We didn’t want to give them the satisfaction of issuing a fine.
Catching Eyes in the Gray East
I don’t remember the exact year anymore, but I certainly remember our car: We were driving our yellow Camaro Z28 E. Since auto electronics is my profession, I always thoroughly checked the car before the trip so that we never had a breakdown with our Camaros—and why would we, the cars were new, after all.
Such a car was an absolute sensation in the GDR. Some people fueled their cars cheaply in the East, but the gasoline there wasn’t clean and had nowhere near the power and performance of the fuel in West Germany. We absolutely didn’t want to damage our Camaro—we couldn’t do that to our “Space Shuttle”!
At one of the border posts, we eventually stood waiting at a red traffic light, about fifteen meters from the border guard sitting in his control booth. We were just on our way out of the GDR. I watched him closely and saw him unmistakably waving us forward with his hand. I put the car in gear and drove off—even though the light was still showing red. I simply relied on the fact that the guard had given me the signal to drive.
The 50-Mark Scam
When I reached him, he took our passports without a word and coldly demanded fifty West German Marks from us. I was stunned and asked for the reason. He stubbornly claimed I had run a red light. I loudly replied: “You just waved at me for a long time, telling me to drive!”
But there was no arguing with GDR border guards. He refused to let us drive on, kept our passports, and threatened to hold us at the border all day until we paid the fifty Marks they demanded. In the end, we had absolutely no choice but to pay through gritted teeth. In this shameless manner, the GDR customs officers robbed us as they pleased. They split the money among themselves—these fabricated fines were probably one of their main sources of income to enrich themselves off Western visitors.
THE DILAPIDATED AUTOBAHNS: TO THE RHYTHM OF THE GDR
The autobahns in the GDR were in a pathetic state. We were told that they had been built before the Second World War under Hitler. Driving over them at 100 kilometers per hour was a unique experience: Since the autobahn consisted of concrete slabs lined up next to each other, there was a loud thud from the tires at every transition from one slab to the next. This happened in a fraction of a second, completely synchronously, always to the same rhythm where the two concrete slabs met.
If you want to feel the original sound of this banging on a GDR autobahn, you simply have to pronounce these three letters loudly and rhythmically in a row: DDR… DDR… DDR…
If we had driven too fast, they could have calculated it instantly based on the time stamp in the passport—and we would have been severely punished. To avoid giving them the satisfaction of issuing a fine, we strictly adhered to the 100 km/h speed limit.
Honestly, we sometimes tried to drive faster, but the autobahn was simply not safe enough for that. There were so many bumps and damages that the car would have literally lifted off the road and flown off the autobahn at a higher speed. With every loud bang under our car, my soul bled—my heart ached for our car because of the miserable roads it had to endure.
CARS IN THE EAST: TRABANT VS. CAMARO
Cars in the GDR were tiny, like a small Fiat or the very small Chinese cars of today. Their car was called the “Trabant” and could barely reach 100 kilometers per hour. When the car was completely overloaded with up to six people and the luggage was crammed into the trunk, they often only drove 80 km/h.
When GDR citizens, crammed together in their small cars, saw us from a distance, they would turn around to look at us 50 meters before overtaking. The whole time until we pulled past them, they stared at my wife and me in our three-times-larger, yellow Camaro Z28 E as if we came from another planet.
Whenever we saw a broken-down car on the side of the road, it was always one of these small GDR cars. They simply couldn’t withstand the harsh conditions and the many potholes. In all those years, I never saw a single broken-down West German car on the roads of the GDR.
STRICT RULES ON THE TRANSIT ROUTE
When we traveled from West Berlin to West Germany, under no circumstances were we allowed to leave the autobahn as West Berliners. Had we left the transit route anywhere on our own accord, they would have arrested us immediately.
On the 280 kilometers through the GDR, we were also not allowed to stop at parking areas reserved exclusively for GDR citizens. There were special, separate parking areas on the autobahn just for West Berliners. Conversely, GDR citizens were not allowed to stop at our rest areas. This is how the authorities kept us strictly separated on the autobahn.
A SENSE OF OPPRESSION
Even though it was strictly forbidden, I sometimes parked in the areas meant only for GDR citizens anyway. I never really felt comfortable doing it; it was a strange, oppressive feeling. If we threw an empty Coca-Cola can or a beer bottle into the trash can there and the GDR citizens saw it, they would immediately go to the trash, pull it out, and take it home as a souvenir.
Sometimes we even saw GDR citizens stopping at the Western parking lots just to collect our discarded empty cans. It was a deeply moving and bizarre sight for us.
RECOGNIZING THEM BY THEIR FACES
People in the East often had pale faces because they couldn’t buy the healthy, fresh food available in the West. Even today, I can spot older people from the former GDR on the street without them having to say a single word.
But you only know this if you lived in West Berlin full-time back then. That’s why I can tell them apart immediately. Anyone who didn’t live in Berlin at the time can hardly understand these differences.
LIBERATION AT THE FEDERAL BORDER
When my wife and I reached the West German border after nearly three hours of driving through the GDR from West Berlin, we had the 280-kilometer transit route behind us. After passing the GDR border controls, we still had to pass through the actual Wall. As soon as we left the Wall and the West German border behind us, our car’s tires finally hit the West German autobahn.
Suddenly, there were no more jolts and no more banging beneath our wheels. We both took a deep, audible breath. We no longer had to worry that a tire might blow out. The West German autobahn was newly built and as smooth as an ice rink. Every time, we let out a deep sigh of relief. Our Camaro visibly enjoyed the West German asphalt.
WITH AN ALMOST EMPTY TANK
Every time my wife and I went on vacation to my home country, we left West Berlin around nine o’clock in the evening. We drove through the GDR for nearly three hours without a stop. You have to imagine this: When we reached the West German border around midnight, the first thing I had to do was get gas.
Our Camaro’s tank was just enough for about 300 kilometers. That meant our fuel gauge was at absolute rock bottom and almost completely empty at the border crossing.
The Real “Night Riders”
After leaving the GDR autobahn behind us at midnight, the burden fell from our shoulders. We were relieved not to hear the monotonous rattling of the tires on the concrete slabs anymore.
Between 1 AM and 4 AM, most people were already asleep. We had the smooth, five-lane autobahn completely to ourselves. Because I drove fast and the road was deserted after midnight, we hardly saw any other cars. The night sky was clear and full of stars, and the moon shone brightly. To enjoy the ride even more, we turned off the radio so the music wouldn’t disturb the peaceful silence in our “Space Shuttle.” We heard absolutely no noise—neither from the engine nor from the tires.
A Breathtaking View into the Night
Our yellow Camaro had a roof made of two split, dark glass panels (T-Top). Through the dark glass above our heads, we could see the moon dancing ahead of us among the countless stars.
If the autobahn curved left for a while, we saw the moon through the glass panel on the right side. When the road soon curved right again, the moon drifted over to the left side. It was as if it were dancing for us in the night sky. All alone on the smooth, five-lane autobahn.
In those moments between 2 AM and 5 AM, sitting in our Camaro felt like flying through outer space. Those were the most beautiful car rides of our lives. It wasn’t until morning around 5 AM, near Munich, that the first other drivers appeared. We made these trips twice a year—in summer and in winter, driving all the way to the sea.
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