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Chris Gueffroy
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Chris Gueffroy was the last person to be shot and the second-last to be murdered in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall.
Chris Gueffroy, at the Window of Remembrance, Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße
Chris Gueffroy, at the Window of Remembrance, Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße
Südostallee 218, Johannisthal, Treptow, East Berlin. Last residence of Berlin Wall victim Chris Gueffroy.
Südostallee 218, Johannisthal, Treptow, East Berlin. Last residence of Berlin Wall victim Chris Gueffroy.
Close-up of Chris Gueffroy's grave, April 2014, at the Baumschulenweg Friedhof/Neuer Städtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Treptow
Close-up of Chris Gueffroy's grave, April 2014, at the Baumschulenweg Friedhof/Neuer Städtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Treptow
Commemorative tablet to Chris Gueffroy. In the background is the partly destroyed Wall, near Reichstag. Winter 1989/90.
Commemorative tablet to Chris Gueffroy. In the background is the partly destroyed Wall, near Reichstag. Winter 1989/90.
Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was comm
Chris Gueffroy
…the last person to be shot and the second-last to be murdered in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall. Chris Gueffroy was born in Pasewalk, Bezirk Neubrandenburg (present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) on 21 June 1968. He had an older brother, Stefan…
From the West Berlin side, Berlin Wall graffiti art in 1986. The wall's "death strip", on the east side of the Wall, here follows the curve of the Lui
From the West Berlin side, Berlin Wall graffiti art in 1986. The wall's "death strip", on the east side of the Wall, here follows the curve of the Luisenstadt Canal (filled in 1932).
East German Combat Groups of the Working Class close the border on 13 August 1961 in preparation for the Berlin Wall construction
East German Combat Groups of the Working Class close the border on 13 August 1961 in preparation for the Berlin Wall construction
East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961
East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961
US President John F. Kennedy visiting the Berlin Wall on 26 June 1963
US President John F. Kennedy visiting the Berlin Wall on 26 June 1963