I first went to Berlin c1968 when I 'indulged' from Benson and managed to get a room in Edinburgh House. In the bar I met (the late) Tom Slatter who was with Brixmis. He'd been aked to speak to a padre about the padre's experience. There'd been some sort of Padres' Convention with lots of Army and RAF padres who'd come up from the 'zone' as those stationed in W Berlin still called the FDR. Apparently several shandies had been consumed and one of the padres had fallen asleep on the S Bahn and woke up in E Germany proper. He got off the train and had absolutely no idea what to do, whether to give himself up to the E German police, Russians or whatever. However, at 5pm lots of factory hooters sounded and streams of workers came to the station and boarded the trains. This padre joined them on a train towards W Berlin and got back without being checked by anybody. Tom had been asked to ascertain exactly where this guy had ended up and to see whether this method could be used in future.
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