Why did people scale the Berlin Wall to get into West Germany when they could have driven to the significantly larger border separating East/West Germany and crossed on foot?
More information is always welcome, especially as The Wall with every year fades further backwards. In the meantime, we do have some prior posts on the matter. Crossing over the Inner German Border would actually have been more difficult than trying to traverse die Mauer, as explained in this post by u/ChuckNorrisAteMySock, and in this post by u/kieslowskifan.