Using West German passports, they planned to make their escape route from the Romanian town of Severin across the Danube to Yugoslavia, and then continue to Bad Oeynhausen.
[2] On 2 September 1982, they were boarded onto an Interflug aeroplane with ten Stasi officials and flown back to the German Democratic Republic.
Fleck was held in custody for one day at the Ministry for State Security in Berlin, then transferred to the Stasi detention center on Bautzner Strasse in Dresden.
[2] Prior to her deportation to the Federal Republic of Germany, she was transferred with other prisoners in a camouflaged truck to Karl-Marx-Stadt on 17 February 1984 where she was held in detention.
[3] Fleck began to make public demonstrations with the help of the International Society for Human Rights to demand for the German Democratic Republic to return her daughters.
[3] The author Ines Veith based her book titled The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie on Fleck, who subsequently became widely known by the name in public.
Her campaign also resulted in a meeting with foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and an audience with John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in April 1985.
[5] Fleck and her daughter Beate Gallus gave lectures at various locations, such as at the Bad Liebenzell Civic Center on 12 October 2019, to recount their experiences of life in the GDR.
[6][7] In 2006 a two-part television film titled Die Frau Vom Checkpoint Charlie was released, which was based on Jutta Fleck's life.