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Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
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Egon Krenz
Leader of East Germany in 1989
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Schießbefehl
East German term for the use of lethal force at the East-West border to prevent defection
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Berlin Wall
Cold War barrier around West Berlin (1961–1989)
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