Joachim Rudolph

Joachim Rudolph was a German engineer and escape artist who tunnelled back to the East after his escape from East Berlin in 1963. Rudolph's escape was unusual because he returned to the East to help others escape, rather than fleeing to the West. He was a key figure in the development of the tunneling technology used by East Berliners to escape to the West. Rudolph's story was widely reported in the media at the time...