Just Get Over There (3) - Sailing to Freedom

On August 10th, 1986, three men in a boat - Klaus Ebeling and his two sons - set course for freedom. They attempted to escape from East Germany across the Baltic Sea. As if out of nowhere, a helicopter appeared and hovered just overhead - and then a second. And then two coastguard cutters from Warnemünde bore down on the little motorboat - joined by a border patrol boat from seaward. It was as if …