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The tragic fate of Winfried Freudenberg

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Video. The tragic fate of Winfried Freudenberg

Updated: 07/11/2019 - 17:00 GMT+1

Winfried decided to risk everything to escape East Germany to West Berlin just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is his tragic story

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