After World War II, emigration restrictions were imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. Legal emigration
Konrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on 15 August 1961, three days after construction began on the Berlin Wall
Rare Soviet "type 2" visa for permanent emigration
A line for the distribution of cooking oil in Bucharest, Romania in May 1986
Sudeten Germans expelled after World War II
Konrad Schumann
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Hans Conrad Schumann, also known as Konrad Schumann, was an East German Bereitschaftspolizist who escaped to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Emigration from the Eastern Bloc
…Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, and Alexander Godunov. Famous East German defectors include writer Wolfgang Leonhard, East German soldier Conrad Schumann, who was famously photographed jumping the Berlin wall while it was under construction, and a number of European football players, including Jörg Berger…
Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on 15 August 1961
Schumann-inspired graffiti in the East Side Gallery, Berlin
Mauerspringer ("wall jumper") sculpture by Florian and Michael Brauer and Edward Anders