[Spridgets] Sprite & Berlin Wall

[George]

Unique ways people got past the Berlin Wall
3. WITHOUT A WINDSHIELD
When Austrian lathe operator Heinz Meixner pulled up to Checkpoint Charlie on
May 5, 1963, something must have seemed odd about his red Austin Healy Sprite
convertible. Namely, it was missing its windshield. (A closer inspection would
also have revealed that his mother was hiding in the trunk.) When the East
German guard directed Meixner to pull over to a customs shed, Meixner instead
floored the accelerator and ducked. His tiny car slipped right under the
three-foot-high barrier dividing the East from the West.


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