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Mar 6, 1997 · A court convicted two former East German border guards of manslaughter Wednesday for the 1962 killing of Peter Fechter, a 17-year-old mason who was shot and bled to death at the Berlin Wall as his ...
Rolf Friedrich and Erich Schreiber are charged in the shooting of 17-year-old Peter Fechter as he tried to escape from East Berlin. ... Fechter lay in the no-man's land between the two sides for ...
Aug 10, 2023 · East-Berlin shifts the blame onto Brandt and Springer. In East Berlin, meanwhile, the SED press was going to town on the Peter Fechter story. On August 19, the Berliner Zeitung commemorated the three border guards who had been killed on duty to date, sacrificing “themselves in the prime of life” and wrote, “they deserve our love”.
Mar 3, 1997 · By Deseret News, Reuter News Service. Two former East German border guards said they were sorry at their trial Monday for the 1962 killing of Peter Fechter, who bled to death after he was shot at the Berlin Wall and his cries for help went unheeded. The 17-year-old Fechter, an East German mason, was shot in the pelvis while trying to climb over ...
Nov 9, 2019 · The Berlin Wall bricklayer whose death became instrumental in its destruction. The fatal shooting of Peter Fechter created a simmering fury that was only becalmed when, on an astonishing night 30 ...
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Aug 13, 2020 · When the funeral of Peter Fechter was held at noon on August 27, 1962, the cemetery of the Resurrection Church in Berlin-Weissensee was sealed off by the GDR State Security apparatus, the Stasi. Photographs were strictly prohibited, and anyone who even approached the cemetery was considered suspicious. Ten days had passed since the 18-year-old ...
