If socialism is such a great economic system, why have so many people died trying to escape it?
Risking imprisonment, torture and death, Klaus-Günter Jacobi modified a BMW Isetta to help his friend escape the oppression of East Germany in 1963. Nine others were able to escape using the same method.
[Escaping East Berlin in a 1961 BMW Isetta [via]. Short vid here.]
Tacky Raccoons 
I read an article about this story decades ago. It is amazing how
he got away with this in a car the size of Isetta! In a much larger
car, another escapee had himself sealed in a gas tank. The tank
had a welded in a tank within a tank. The range was so limited
that it had to be refiled just on the other side of the checkpoint.
What is it they say about necessity being the mother of invention?
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Leonard–
I was always fascinated about desperate escapes. Escape From Colditz comes to mind (and no, you can’t have my copy).
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That’s OK Bunk. I have both the movie and E-book of Escape From
Sobibor. But If I run across a hard copy, I would ship it to you. I
moved to the High Desert of California about 4 years ago and gave
about 500 books to the Salvation Army to lighten the load. My
passions are science (especially physics and astronomy.) WWII
and holocaust biographies.
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Leonard– Yeah, I was snarking. I’ll look up Sobibor.
Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor was so good I read it twice. Jim Lovell’s The Lost Moon is another white-knuckle read, and I read that one more than once as well.
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