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Berlin – at Checkpoint Charlie and the Spy Museum

Dec 14, 2015

By Eileen Ogintz BERLIN (DAY THREE) — A woman hid inside a surfboard atop a car; a man kayaked to freedom. Two families risked their lives in an impossibly small hot air balloon. A singer hid his wife in an amplifier. Another family made its escape with a...

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