Czech refugees capture army reconnaissance-car and crash Czech-German Border.: On July 1953 at approximately 0430 hours in the morning, eight Czech civilian succeeded in escaping from being the Iron Curtain, when they broke thru the frontiers with an army reconnaissance car they had captured by themselves. The crew of the car were two Czech soldiers, two Czech civilians, two women and two children. The refugees asked for asylum - for political reasons. At approximately 1430 hours on 25 July 1953, Bavarian Frontier Police watched a Czech army reconnaissance-car breaking thru the barbed-wire fence, at Haselbach, Rural district Waldmuenchen (Bavarian Forest). Alarmed Ozech guards on duty made an all-out effort to stop the car but they failed, owing to the high speed the car attained once it had crossed the frontier. The Bavarin frontier police alarmed the US Military Police, and in less than 30 minutes mechanized M.P.'s were around , picked up both refugees and car, and sequestrated the car immediately. Afternoon-reports issued by wire from the US-High Command stated "that the refugees are in US hands". Already at 2200 the military authorities stationed in Regensburg, Upper Bavaria, allowed German press reporters a conference held in Regensburg. Photo shows (from left to right) : Cloude, Libuse, and Pisarek, Josef - three of the escaped Czech refugees - seen during the press conference in Regenburg, yesterday, at 2200 hours in Regensburg.
Photo measures 6 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated 6-26-1953.
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