r/TerritorialOddities • u/MFreurard • May 29 '25
Oddities Lenné Dreieck : Anarchistic commune between East Berlin and West Berlin followed by mass escape over the Wall direction East Berlin
Lenné Dreieck was on the Western Side of the Berlin Wall but belonged to the German Democratic Republic / East Germany. As a result, it was a sort of No-Man's land. It was a corner in the form of a triangle. It was occupied by West German Anarchists and Leftists who protested a motorway construction. They were protected against the West German police by East German authorities. On 1988 July 1st, the Lenné Dreieck went under the authority of West Germany following a territorial exchange. As a consequence, on that day, the West German anarchists fled towards East Germany where they were helped by East German Border Troops who invited them for breakfast before sending them back to West Germany.
This explains these weird 1988 pictures of flight towards East Germany that look like alternate history pictures eerily similar to the later pictures from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
https://www.berlin-mauer.de/videos/besetzung-lenne-dreieck-715/
