Killing of Peter Fechter
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Peter Fechter was an East German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border guards whil
Fechter's body lying next to the Berlin Wall after being shot in 1962 while trying to escape to the West
Peter Fechter memorial and wreath on the western side of the Berlin Wall, taken in 1984
Peter Fechter memorial cross at Checkpoint Charlie
The Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic was the border guard of the German Democratic Republic from 1946 to 1990.
An East German Grenzaufklärungszug (GAK) border trooper taking pictures of US Army activities across the inner German border
Grenztruppen guarding maintenance workers on the western side of the inner German border fence. The red tape in the foreground, the so-called "death cord", marked the area the work detail was permitted to operate, and workers stepping beyond the tape would be shot
Grenztruppen during an exercise near Mühlhausen on March 27, 1982
East German border guard Konrad Schumann fleeing East Germany, 1961