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Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (born 1927)
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Hildegard Trabant
East German woman killed at the Berlin Wall in 1964
Hildegard Johanna Maria Trabant was an East German woman who became the fiftieth known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Trabant was shot and killed by East German border guards during a crossing attempt, one of only eight women victims of the Berlin Wall, and was the only…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Berlin Wall
Cold War barrier around West Berlin (1961–1989)
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 commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers…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)