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Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
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Killing of Peter Fechter
18 year old German bricklayer killed crossing the Berlin wall in 1962
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 while trying to cross over to West Berlin.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
List of deaths at the Berlin Wall
List of deaths which occurred at the Berlin Wall
There were numerous deaths at the Berlin Wall, which stood as a barrier between West Berlin and East Berlin from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989. Before the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)