TY - BOOK ID - 77943227 TI - Escape from Leipzig AU - Fritzsch, Harald AU - Heusch, Karin AU - Hooft, G 't PY - 2008 SN - 1281938270 9786611938277 9812790101 9789812790101 9781281938275 9789812790095 9812790098 9789812793065 9812793062 PB - Hackensack, N.J. World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Escapes KW - Political refugees KW - Asylum seekers KW - Refugees, Political KW - Refugees KW - Fritzsch, Harald, KW - Fritzsch, H. KW - Germany (East) KW - Politics and government. KW - Germany. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943227 AB - In the 1960's, Leipzig was the center of resistance in East Germany. Harald Fritzsch, then a physics student, contemplated escape. But before he left, he wanted to demonstrate to the government that they had gone too far when they destroyed St. Paul's Church in May 1968. He accomplished that by unrolling a protest transparency in spectacular fashion. Despite the great efforts of the secret police, the STASI, the government was unable to find out who was responsible for this act. Soon after, together with a friend, Fritzsch began his journey to Bulgaria in order to escape into Turkey by traversing... ER -