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Smuggled over the border: the school trip, the Stasi and the East German defector – podcast

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In 1984, a group of West German schoolchildren smuggled an East German defector out of East Germany. Sophie Hardach speaks to those involved. Plus: Jo Holdaway on the GM anti-virus drug that saved her daughter’s life

It began as a typical 1980s school trip: a group of teenagers piled on to a bus, Duran Duran were on the stereo and spirits were high. What happened next caused a sensation: it was part The Famous Five and part John le Carré thriller.

 

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