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Show Life in the allied sectors sec-tors of Berlin these days is far from Utopian, but to those people of the Communist - dominated eastern Germany who I seek sanctuary from ter- i ror and oppression, the ! western zone looms as a veritable Shangri - la. Above a group of refu- i goes are eating their sup- ; per in the courtyard of ; their new quarters, the wartime bunker of Ger- ? man high command. Bullet holes in the walls were made during the ex- ecution of members of the unsuccessful 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. I . ' I t Q A newly arrived family fam-ily (above) sets up home in the single rough room provided by the city in one of the refugee camps. A group of fugitives (left) carrying all their belongings they were able to bring with them, prepare to move into barracks set up for them at one of the camps. These were lucky enough to have bicycles. Most of the refugees travel by foot and are able to carry even less. It is a dangerous journey they have completed. I ; ' fc , m Ji - , - n -. 1 ! , ' , V i ' f I - -r - - I - 't f X - - f ' t . x 1 l " ' " ' s " if ' Tn t ' -? j Q The refugees (above) make ready to fly into west Germany. Their . faces are blanked to prevent pre-vent identification. Travel by air is necessary for the fugitives to avoid seizure by Communist guards vho ring the borders of Berlin. Jammed into the crowded, windowless corridor cor-ridor of the bunker, the refugees (right) can do little to make the heavy lours lighter while they ait their turns to move where western Berlin authorities au-thorities decide to send them. ' , t t ,'1 , t i 'rf y , 38. , ' - , X ' , , ' ' t.-S V i r " - ' li ' !-fi ; - .,. ' - C--' ' f . .. . . . L :'. ' CW'.. Using her battered suitcase for a table, a refugee (left) from the Polish - annexed borderlands border-lands eats the sparse supper offered at the west Berlin camp, sharing it with her dog whom she managed to keep with her all during her long flight from behind the iron curtain. In June 4,-335 4,-335 such refugees made their way into western Berlin, almost double the May total of 2,835, officials offi-cials report. |