Frau Frieda Schulze makes her dramatic bid to reach freedom - she is pictured hanging from the window of her second storey apartment just inside the West Berlin border . East German police holding one arm try to pull her back . Below a young West German tries to free her to fall into a net held by West German police on the sidewalk , which is in West Berlin . Part of the wall dividing East from West is seen to the right of the house . Her escape was successful .