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There were many dramatic and interesting escapes to the west after the Berlin wall went up. Some of the most interesting were the building of a underground tunnel that connected a old bakery from the west to some back yard toilets in the east, capturing a boat and tying the captain up after he got drunk and taking the boat to West Berlin, and hiding in a car with no top and no windshield as the driver does not stop to be inspected and goes rite under the barriers. One of the most interesting escapes came from two families who worked on a hot air balloon in their basement. The men drilled and soldered together gas burners, platforms and a makeshift flamethrower, while the woman stitched a sixty foot wide and seventy five foot high balloon out of curtains, bed sheets and other fabrics. The couples had just enough fuel to get in the air and barely floated over the Wall on Sept. 15, 1979. When Nazi Germany surrendered at the end of WWII, the allied powers signed the Potsdam Agreement, a treaty that determined the borders for Germany and Berlin. Germany was split into four sections, the largest being the Soviets section, which was the Eastern part of Germany. The western section belonged to France, Britain and USA. This all mad