BERLIN - The remains of the largest tunnel under the Berlin Wall, used as an illegal route from east to west, have been unearthed, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
The wooden supports for what was known as Tunnel 29 were discovered by a team from Spiegel TV during research for a documentary.
The tunnel was built by volunteers - mostly West Berlin students - the year after the wall went up. It was 413 feet long and almost 20 feet below the wall, ending in the cellar of a house in East Berlin.
The tunnel was closed after 29 people escaped to the west on Sept. 14, 1962, because it was flooded by a broken water pipe.
Der Spiegel said people who took part in the escape helped locate the remains of the tunnel.
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