Thousands of East Berliners crowded at the Wall, demanding to be let through.

As barbed wire gave way to concrete, East Berliners grew desperate.

Without warning East Berliners had been denied passage rights to the western part of the city by their own soldiers.

East Berliners no longer cower before the building.

If East Berliners were caught up in the exodus, there was little willingness to share their feelings with strangers.

- An elderly East Berliner as he crossed into the west.

Because of the Wall, East Berliners had been unable to get there for 28 years.

It was showing interviews with East Berliners earlier in the day.

East Berliners' desire to shed their past soon turned into an insistence that it not be erased.

Together these two students managed to set up an evolving network that helped thousands of East Berliners safely escape.