Before the wall fell: the students who reunited Germany
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A digger of 'Tunnel 57' recalls his role, 25 years ago, in one of the most celebrated rescue operations of the Cold War
For six months between April and October 1964, Ralph Kabisch found himself among a group of some 20 college students digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall to serve as an escape route for dozens of East Germans seeking freedom in the West.
Kabisch was a 22yearold col
