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Frank Riechmann, Doris Strelzyk, Petra Wetzel, Günter Wetzel and Andreas Strelzyk at the premiere of the
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Peter Strelzyk, Günter Wetzel, and their family sitting in their self-made hot-air balloon, which they used to flee East Germany in 1979. After their second attempt, three different balloons, and one and
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