961 east german troops moved into position on the boundaries between sobeys talk you pipe zone of germany and the sect is held by the us assads western allies britain france and the us the Cold War Division now stretched across the whole country not just through berlin more and more barriers was set up along 1400 kilometers of east germany sprung. He is making them into a deadly no mans land even hootch ways like the elbow were closely watched although it is germanys Border Guards were initially prohibited from shooting it woman and children the ministry of state security better known as the stasi places said they should not hesitate to use firearms even if women and children and these traitors often explorative present. By 19 if you know 9 more than 13 miners will be killed on the front between east and west germany. Have my name is joe said i live it up on the shasta 42 in quotes back my parents are christian under many cabinets i have 2 sisters and one is just a live baby. Shes 4. I play a lot behind the house with my friend up dolla yes hes 2 years older than me. Today he asked me if i wanted to go down to the river the spray for the new ive never been there without my parents. But abdullah knows how to get to the water. We want to look at the fish. Device for fan club that. We got up on the we have to kind how to stick in the water. Use up us a broker and his sister vinci lived in berlin scrotes by district. 6 when he and his friend went to the banks of the river in west berlin in june 1974 men with the feet up and. Thats later on my mother discovered that my brother wasnt in the yard anymore and asked our neighbor to come over and look after us. Then she went to see where he had gone. She found out that he had left our building right with another boy i knew i was in the house. Because. Mr polk was rich cast advice as all guest workers giuseppes father dominico had come to berlin in 1954 perform the world was built his wife arrived a decade later i got married and like many other foreign immigrants in berlin at the time moved into a love went apartment in an old a tenement building the 1st time just 2nd was and in 1968 when we got bombed to try strikes me my brother was very proud of me as we played a lot together. And he was really gentle and careful with my little sister who was just a baby then. He always liked to feed her her bottle. Or he was good natured and open he didnt get wound up like i did even at the age of 4 he was the quiet one here. We go. Back in the 1970 s. There were lots of different nationalities having interests fake neighborhoods children often played to get the win there. Parents wont work. The open pound bridge link the districts of quote spoken friedrichs time at least until the wall was built in 1961. Then the span was cordoned off. From then on the east German Border Police got him to preach and the river itself which was already treat this point the west bank of the river was an ideal place for children to play even after 961 many people also came down to fish or stroll to it was the same on june 15th 1974 and instinctive i just wish my mom instinctively ran towards the water. She said that when she got there she could already see all the people and hear them shouting that a child had fallen into the water. And suffered a fine earth. Was with his friends on the banks if. He wanted to fish Something Else and. So with the further and further. He slipped. And. A great lady my mother was acquainted with said she believed it was her boy who was floating in the water. Thats your son she said. Hes there in the water with the. East german 35th on a regiment. Was stationed at the open bow bridge and cordoned off the river using boats more of the bridge. The Border Guards closely monitored the fog bank if anyone stepped over the front into the river that there were authorized to and. And finally. On that saturday a border guard on the bridge floor just at the falls into the water and told the boat company commander. The Border Patrols report was short and to the point the boat Company Leader said he had been alerted by a shout from the west bank that a child had fallen in the water he said it was a provocation and informed his superior about the accident but he refused to launch an immediate rescue. Divers from the border regiment didnt recover body from the sri until about 11 am west German Police and firefighters on the scene were afraid that would be shot if they tried to save him. The authorities in west berlin got in touch with my mother. The police told her that as soon as the body drifted into the eastern sector the west simply couldnt do anything thats. Not. The london hide. My hair really stands on end when i read one part of the case file it says there werent any air bubbles or just a few. Things it doesnt matter that it was my brother who was in there its the principle of the matter i dont know its hard hard to know that there were people there who just stood by and looked on. Its a little odd. She said his body was taken to east berlin his parents were beside themselves with grief and his father collapsed as mother crystal was only allowed into east berlin 2 days later to identify her son. In east German Authorities her pain at losing a child wasnt an issue which will. Set up its act as she said that she would never be able to forget what she saw he was there just as he was when they pulled him out of the water she said he was on a table then they just hauled back the sheet as they do and 1st she just began to cry and of course it was her son there but she still had to go through all the formalities of identifying him and proving that it really was her son. The final report of the ministry of state security she said after the police had completed the criminal investigation it was determined this was an accidental drowning caused by the child itself. Act in. The east German Authorities followed similar protocols in other cases in addition to just episode burka for more children between 5 and 8 years old died in the shrubbery. And serious and secret crowbarred. Galvatron cheek and change in met. A firefighter from west berlin class after home was involved in 2 instance on the banks of the sri including one in which one of the turkish boys drowned he remembers that before the war was built the east german Border Guards on the west Berlin Fire Department used to Work Together if someone fell into the river. After 961. 00. It was a different story when the. If the east german Border Patrol boats were there we were trying to talk to them but we never got an answer werman. With the eye which is look and then turn away and refused to have any contact with us on the planet would sometimes take an hour id say sometimes longer before the scuba divers came and took over the recovery of the 4 and of course you can imagine all the people watching what we were doing from a bomb usually we had divers ready to go all they had to do was get in the water. Or and. And of course the families really piled on the pressure shouting you cowards and the like. In these i wish to argue that they didnt really understand what they were saying but we could sense the aggression by 20 cent. A turkish boy in met drowned in the spray on may 11th 1975 he was recovered just an hour later barely 5 meters from the west berlin back following day so heated protests at the same. And airport members of the Turkish Community have held a weight monday demonstration in memory of the 5 year old turkish boy who drowned in this way around 3000 people took part in a march 5000 pounds on the toilet which went to the core of an over in a crowd bird close to the obama bridge. After the accident in east berlin Border Guards have prevented the west berlin fire brigade from launching a rescue effort from the western side. Only after a total of 5 children have died for fences and warning signs finally put up the authorities in western east berlin rangle q 2 he is over in the agency rescue procedures but finally agreed the 1st responders including the west Berlin Police and Fire Department and people at the scene to try to launch a rescue after that. No more children died on the border. Noid out how between his acca and burke was where the elbow river formed the border between west and east germany. In 19623 boys set out to cross this 100 kilometer long section of the front gate to west germany by swimming across the elba. One of the boys lost his life in the attempt. Of. You hanna streeter and hammond wanted to play with their friend and kept. My name is get in camp im 15 years old and i live. In albion 10th grade in september what i really want to do is go live with my father heinsohn hamburg i visited him there once in his daughter. After 3 years in a siberian labor camp father had moved to hamburg in 1956 of the family had split up and get remained with his grandparents father wanted him to finish school and sharing. He still said to send packages with jeans and a white belt with a big buckle which was the style back then then get ahead of another people at school who wanted to flee to the west. Hammond was in the next grade up at the same school as couldnt camp 2 of the seedlings had already fled west which meant he had few prospects at all against germany. I thought of as a really go flush all my stuff my father was a selfemployed butcher and my grandfather already had a butcher shop so we were already viewed as capitalists. Basically children from the social groups were generally suspected of being nonsocialist. Commissioner. In the 7th grade i applied to attend an advanced high school the next year but my teacher told me that there was no way i would get anyone to sponsor me to go there it just wasnt done. Because if you already had 2 siblings in the west and all of my relatives were in the west as well as the state right away said we dont need people like that theyre not politically reliable. To. Follow. And so right from the get go i had no chance of having a career there. From former unleashed duffer focus in on it for years and. Were. Done by the scientific lot of my parents already realised i had no intention of staying in east germany and growing up in that system. He wasnt alone in hating the rituals of the socialist state. He quickly became friends with your highness 3 who was also. Kept getting into trouble with the system and i like going out together. I dont know wed go and dance up stands the parents dance lessons in a hole right here around the corner like you and i could. Instead of the burning. Commitment to socialism they were crazy about rocknroll and dreamed of a market in the west you had a strict his parents were well known debts teaches he just moved to sherene with them the family lived in a small village nearby and to the summer of 1961. This is where your highness rita and his 2 cynics grew up they used to wander all over the place sometimes going down to the elbow which was only 3 kilometers away. The river still marks the border then but it wasnt yet heavily guarded in 1961 only a few wooden watchtowers overlook the demarcation line armed patrols of east german Border Guards were few and far between. Others so im 5 years as a very big. Or i dont cross farm called the Border Police really want all that much of an issue but i never really said you cant go in here or you cant do this in order to begin with it just wasnt that strict spring. After he moved to share in your hand history to look for like minded friends. And this was the reson. If i was around 15 then cover groups of kids who werent really politically committed any more you named you poorly jewish all of the world really part of the political system and you had to find them as teams or. But it didnt take long to see who they were would. The boys make their chance to cross over to the west in the summer of 9621 day they were bathing and hatched a plan to swim across the new your highness 3 old village 3 days before their attempt to get a coin in camp join them in you have been booked from school. By the time they are joined us we werent about to call the whole thing off. Under the even someone who knew about the plan would have been riskier than taking him with us right. On august the 4th 962 they took the train from sheer into no house about 5 kilometers from the elba. They waited in a restaurant into the light began to fight. Only then could they move into the restricted border area and kicked. They had to stay away from drugs and ponds. Destroy our retreat and it was probably night really dark we just kept heading in the direction of the album with no compass written off when we heard boots clattering on the street would move quickly into the next field and duck down until they were gone for the opening just before biases and then we kept going for is that. They reached the dykes on the elbow just before dawn. It was already night. Isnt who could call more drugs reveal we climbed up onto the dike that could come. Suddenly get called out the guards are coming. Got involved too large law firms to secure the return. Around and saw them about 50 or a 100 meters away from all so we ran down right away and got in the water but. The other boat had secret service men dance all the guards it was every man for himself. I just started running. I didnt want a group anymore everyone had to look after themselves with his resources. Yohannes ran to the end of a break water and jumped into the river. The goods hasnt done. The guards ran along the breakwaters and could already get a bead on us from the side. They opened fire and i saw a shot hit the water next to me about a metre away again. No one is in. Cant camp was quick i made it to the water 1st. He wanted to get away from the bank in the gods so he. Hit. And hit something hot probably a stun. Gun encamped was bleeding and i needed to bring. In gear couldnt companies. Get and i were maybe 5 or 6 metres away from each other from 6 medo else and done there. Also inviting when i had to get out of the water i heard him say i cant make it. On the mia. I wanted to swim over to him but the border guard said do that and his dad pulled. Apparently injured and without help get campsite under the water. Meanwhile the 2nd border guard following your highness rishta 5 detainees with an automatic rifle. I dived as long as possible come up get a breath and then go down immediately and my head came up again they fired again and again shot up the shot it went in and then do you and then back down again and a bit further away you know. I would i kept on swimming until my stomach hits than i thought now you can stand up and youre in the west so to speak. British there was a lighted he had made it. Get can in camp never got back to dry land east german Border Guards daily report noted he was observed going on. So. Even if he hadnt been such a good swimmer i could have gotten him on to shore. I could swim well and there wouldnt have been a problem to pull him along with me. He wasnt a big guy. We were kids and he was light of life he said if i wouldnt have had any trouble taking him with me if we hadnt been discovered. In the name the. Get can in camps train. If a new life in the west ended when he was almost there his death certificate noted. Can and camp was recovered from the via 6 35 pm on august the 10th 1962. Herman burkett was arrested and interrogated by the state Security Service in the jail in cherry in. The summer of. Love when i was 16 i looked like a 14 year old son and of course i blame thomas. It organized it all and planned it and i just played the little dummy for a while and it worked to. Start off the club. A month later Herman Burkett was charged with a misdemeanor and convicted under juvenile law he was given a probationary sentence. So the name kernan comp never came up at all even during interrogations in the trial it was an embarrassment for the system they just kept silent about it all this. Time and burkhardt got off easy. There would be a skippy had to promise to improve his attitude and began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer after military service in the east german peoples army the m. B. A. He was rehabilitated and later even allowed to take over his parents your highness rishta found things in the west more difficult than he expected and started an odyssey through reception camps and hostels with the children of east german recchi ji families were often left to their own devices. That was quite tough with. Trying to make contact with relatives in the west and all that. Sometimes it was really frustrating for 3 and. You had we had fairly close ties in our family and then it was just gone all at once like one bar and got a line on the ground which just on iraq and especially holidays like christmas was going away its really difficult. Nevertheless johannes did start a new life in the west finishing secondary school and going on to study it university after an amnesty for an instrument if he could even this it his family. Just that was almost as exciting as running away in the 1st place because i was really scared when i got to the border. The way the Border Guards came i thought. You could have arrested meghann even then after 10 years a car. Gets kind of comes case was reopened in 1995 but the investigation against the 2 Border Guards was then closed because good hadnt been hit by bullets. As a bit and defects and journey so in the end the actual guilty people were the officers or those who that say gave the orders and made them do it all fits. He just comes as is the whole system is simply im forgivable and thats just how it was. They always say that as a christian you should love your enemy. Chris but i just cant bring myself to do it. In 962 what the east german regime call the anti fascist defense wall was still largely un forces fired at by 979 it was almost impregnable 30000 Border Guards patrolled the frontier daily and not with orders to shoot to kill would be escapees who could not be stopped in the way they are today they were charged with preventing people from leaving the country at any price and they followed those orders to the letter to for an escape attempt by 2 teenagers from how annoyed. To the flies shower and his friend heiko when the wanted to reach the west shore forest in the mountains. Parker was killed flashcard takes in search of his memorial stone. Which is in there it is and these are still draws. This is supposed to be where hiker died. Someone we havent been able to find out who it was but the stone here in painted h r on it with high been spayed at a cross. You can still see the cross in. Helen moisture that is insects me and heart it was once home to many chemicals work is posted jobs in the big Chemical Plants and the now if a fly shower and his body hardcover grew up here they had known each other since they were little. And over flash as parents were Chemical Plant workers true. In. Months. Rather started off as a train driver and then he went to the state railways that i sponsored. During the most important 10 years of my childhood he was never actually around for work lots of extra shifts too because we needed the money. She worked in bona 1st as a clerk then she moved up to a job as a skilled chemical worker after training in a night school. How is known for its prefabricated house. On the matches trauma one of the citys main streets even it employed 36 and hardcoded next employed 30 to. My name im 15 i have a sister school. Studying i like doing stuff with my friends. In visit good friend of mine he doesnt like school either family failure as. He spent more outgoing impulsive and funny and also because. In school we were really similar but he was under a different kind of Pressure Cooker he had a big sister and she finished 10th grade with top marks his mother had gone to University Never had a dad but there was always his big sister who was just great at everything. She was compared to him all the time he wasnt the favorite son. To fly i shall enjoy driving around with the boys he did fine in school until the teens great. Got stressful because dad told me if you dont pass the exam dont bother coming home with what the teacher said theres no way youll pass it so i said they could kiss me where the sun doesnt shine and i wont ever come home i guess thats when i decided to run away. If i wanted to go west. I said yes right away i couldnt stand it to him any more. I took the train from holland to nordhaus and i wanted to get to Ben Eccleston in the hearts region and cross the border anything if i shall need to flee from a trip on the hearts clamp on narrow gauge around way june a family holiday. He does and im going to look at book true we packed our backpacks and put on warm clothes because it was december Winter Weather and. We were sure wed make it and it was something that was almost so we had more stuff on impact than you could probably use in a day then we set off to the. To move to a. Mental mud hue of i had always dreamed of going to sea with the east german merchant navy. But there was no chance of that because i was too good in quotes in schools as a model but that was my dream to really see the world. I couldnt really have any great plans he just wanted out of there are worth. Trying to get to the west i was still determined. To try and invent i think right by the west german border. Years and we got off the train and walked on the road as all are going to be entered the restricted area. The edge of the restricted area went right along the railway line you need to pass to go in there but. Without being checked the area was very tightly secured years and its also your model we came out of the woods and crossed this pan then there was a fence and we thought it was the fence for the real board the ferry went through it once on the van we were at the edge of the woods and followed a cable channel towards the west to listen to. What they didnt know was that it was only the 1st spence and they set off an alarm when they went through it. And the 2 youngsters made their way straight through the forest and into the car isnt we went through a ravine and climbed up to the edge of the woods and thats when we saw the fence you could see it from there then we heard the sound of a weapon because of. That. And i wish i threw myself on the ground and heiko did too but he was really thin and impulsive and he popped right back up and shouted hurry up fly she go back and headed for the words of. Fly she gave the shooting at us. The minutes look at already hear the shots they were aiming directly at us because hiker jumped up again and ran back in. The words that ended up shooting him in the back. 2 Border Guards killed 15 year old hacker role in a hail of bullets they fired 51. 00 shots. The 2 Border Guards were 28 and 23 years old. The shooters were doing agency that was supposed to prevent people crossing the from tina. The case records fobbed later said the Border Guards distinguished themselves by showing great beach illinois a shot to kill. And 196 both blankfein was the chief prosecutor in the trial of the 2 former Border Guards you can outbreath and class smile. He says the death of hark obama is an example of the implacable lity of the east german border regime. The uniquely living view novick of a boyfriend back again i see 30 to 40 soldiers have been sent out and they were searching the small area he couldnt. As they were these issues are so in this case the shots werent actually to prevent them from crossing the border im convinced. And later a report by the stasi said be attempted illegal Border Crossing could have been prevented without shooting to kill. Able hard asha was doing his Compulsory Military Service in saugor working with the 2 Border Guards who did the shooting that day he was at the next guard post. Then if that hadnt fired one or 2 Border Guards would have been sent after them or thats why and they just would have been arrested. The door he wouldnt have gone through further along because after the alarm fence everything had been locked down. So they wouldnt have gotten out of it. And say 2 guards hadnt been here all there you then they just would have run straight across and up to fence number one would it solve everything there was completely my fault i mean they would have run into a minefield and been shredded by that so they wouldnt have stood a chance gunshots. It behoved washoe in the 2 guards who did the shooting was stationed in the barracks and so. They knew that the Border Guards werent really supposed to shoot at children and young people. Children. Children had a special status. You could arrest them and hold them but you couldnt do anything else yourself escalate to soak up shop that was laid down. It was an order. And anyway there was a law or an order that if you fired at a minor you were to aim at theres no extremities. The 2 pointed out still killed. The flash i was taken away from the scene if his friend stayed. In the barracks its all good the system is already working at full steam to ensure no accounts of what happened to chance. In the londoners for i stood for a long time in the hallway spread out in search position. You know with both hands on the wall and my feet away from the wall spread out. At some point some guy from the stasi came and took me into an office and questioned me. As i had to undress completely the works of osun over control of the that was my 1st interrogation. While they were questioning if i shall his friends body was just put in a carriage at the barracks carnality carried out a more topsy. Helmet piotrowski was the border guard commander. Reputed to be as hard as nails his maxims shoot 1st ask questions later and reload as soon as an alarm goes off and really meant shoot to kill. As if craig its no coincidence that here on this National Front here. New provocations by enemy forces ok daily. Insulting and even going as far as shooting Border Guards back in the vision of the country is true. I still dont get how we could be so cold blooded while deciding who would live and who would die and then be proud of it. But people like that were desirable in east germany and they were needed and used good and good notes to. The stars who did all they could to cover up the incident painstakingly working out a plan and even inventing a false story everyone involved had to sign a gag order they didnt tell hi coronas mother the whole story i thought. A plan to cover up the circumstances the killing went into full swing the offices were told to send that rumor had been accidentally killed cheering commission of a cron undercover agents even attended who was very. High because friend if a flash hour was taken to hull or more interrogation in a prison called ox because the color of france facade. Only then was his lawyer able to tell him that his friend heiko had been killed he was then interrogated to get his several friends the vote when they wanted to know how why and for what reason we decided to leave east germany to flee across the border i do with climate and knew about it how did we carry it out where do we make stops etc they asked again and again and again for. The flash hour was convicted of attempted illegal Border Crossing and sentenced to a year in jail. Lucia im still angry at the shooters as well because you might say they had their orders well yes they did but the guns are in their hands here their fingers on the trigger and you know the feeling of too. Windy and they had to decide whether to pull the trigger or not and whether to aim true. 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