Escape aid one calls humans, who help other humans to the escape into another country.

If the escape reason is not approved of or if a particularly high payment for the assistance is accepted, one speaks of smuggler, tractor or even of people dealer.

The escape assistance from the GDR into the Federal Republic applied 1989 ago - at least in the west of Germany - when honourable action, even if quite high payment were accepted, since the risk could be quite large depending upon the method of the escape assistance.

Because of the unwantedness of asylum-seekers without conclusive asylum reason (see right of asylum) of on the one hand and that consciously taking into account methods one often speaks the death of the refugees today pretty often also with escape assistance of slave trade, although in case of the escape assistance the service and not humans are the sold commodity.

How different the way of acting of an escape aid can be to judge, on the one hand Wolfgang Welsch, which the GDR public security tried to murder, shows up herds among other things, which are counted because of their relief work for Jews to the fair ones among the peoples and on the other hand in the escape aid Rudolf Mueller in escape aids such as Herbert, the escape aid, who shot the soldier of the border troops of the GDR Reinhold chicken. A further well-known escape aid was Michael garden racquet, which was shot with an action against the GDR border installations by a special command.

An impressive literary treatment of the problem is the radio play the ship Esperanza of Fred of Hoerschelmann.

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