961 east german troops moved into position on the boundaries between a soviet talk you pipes zone of germany and the sectors held by the us and 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 germanys front. He is making them into a deadly no mans land even hootch ways like the elbow were closely watched although its germanys Border Guards were initially prohibited from shooting it would and children the ministry of the state security better known as the stasi places said they should not hesitate to use firearms even if women and children in these traitors often explored present. By 989. 00 more than 13 miners would be killed on the front between east and west germany. Those have my name is joe said i live it up on the shasta 42 in quotes back to my parents are christa under many cabinets i have 2 sisters and one is just a live baby conventions shes full. Time i play a lot behind the house with my friend up dolla hes 2 years older than me. Today he asked me if i wanted to go down to the river lets pray. Ive never been there without my parents. But i have to learn knows how to get to the water. We want to look at the fish. Device or shine. We got up on the well have to kind how to stick in the water. Just episode bokeh and he says to finch and lived in berlin squads but district. 6 when he and his friend went to the banks of the british brain in west berlin in june 1974 man with the feet up and much. Of us 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 that with another boy i knew only was in the house. About us. Its a poker game cast advisers all guest workers giuseppes father dominico had come to berlin in 1954 before the wall was built his wife arrived a decade later they got married and like many other foreign immigrants in berlin at the time moved into a low point apartment in an old a tenement building the 1st time just 2nd was in 1968. Bombs to tie strikes me my brother was very proud of me 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 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 introspect neighborhoods children often played to get the win there. Work. The open bridge leap the districts across spec and friedrich time at least until the wall was built in 1961. Then the span was cordoned off. From then on the east German Border Police guarding the bridge and the river itself which was already treat this point the western 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. 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. When she said this was his friend on the banks of the fact he wanted to fish something out of the. So weve been trying to 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 g. s f. A she said. Hes there in the water. Hes german 35th on a regiment early in rubles birth was stationed at the upper bound bridge and cordoned off the river using boats moved off the bridge. The Border Guards closely monitored the far bank if anyone stepped over the front into the river that they were authorized to on. And finally. On that saturday a border guard on the bridge saw the fall into the water and told the boat company commander. The Border Patrol ship 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. If. 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 height. My hair really stands on and 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 is 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 shot. 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. But east German Authorities her pain at losing a child wasnt an issue itll. Get up is that 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 pulled back the sheet as they do and 1st she just began to cry 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. Of. 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 and. The east German Authorities followed similar protocols in other cases in addition to just epis of oka for more children between 5 and 8 years old died in the sri. Andreas a secret crowbarred. Galvatron she and changing met. A firefighter from west berlin class after him was involved in 2 instance on the facts 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 in the west Berlin Fire Department used to Work Together if someone fell into the river. But 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 which ones. With the i would just look and then turn away and refused to have any contact with us on the then it would sometimes take an hour id stay 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 about 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. These i wish to argue that they didnt really understand what they were saying but we could sense the aggression by. A turkish boy chechen men who drowned in the shrubbery 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. Made an airport members of the Turkish Community have held out with monday demonstration in memory of the 5 year old turkish boy who drowned in this way around 2000 people took part in the march 5000 pairs on the telly which went to the core of an over in kreisberg close to the obama bridge. After the accident to 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 had died with fences and warning signs finally put up the authorities in western east berlin wrangle the 2 he is over in the agency rescue procedures they 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 river formed the border between west and east germany. In all those 9623 boys set out to cross this 100 kilometer long section of the front and escape to west germany by swimming across the. One of the lost his life in the attempt. Like that. Of. You hanna streeter and herman wanted to flee with their friend and kept. My name is get in camp im 15 years old and i live. Ill be in 10th grade in september what i really want to do is go live with my father haim so hamburg i visited him there once. After 3 years in a siberian labor camp father had moved to hamburg in 1956 but the family had split up and get remained with his grandparents father wanted him to finish school and sharing. He still said his son packages with jeans and a white belt with a buckle which was the style back then then get ahead of another people at school who wanted to flee to the west. Hemant was in the next grade up at the same school in camp. Had already fled west which meant he had few prospects of germany. I thought of as a 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 on socialist. Commission as. 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. From follow. Up and so right from the get go i had no chance of having a career there. From. Duffer focus in on it for you and mom were. My parents already realized i had no intention of staying in east germany and growing up in that system. Does insisting. 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 and sharing. I dont know we go and dance up stands the parents dance lessons in a hole right here around the corner like you and i could. Instead of a burning. Commitment to socialism they were crazy about rocknroll and dreamed of a mark in the west yohannes reached his parents were well known debts teaches he just need to share in 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 siblings grew up they used to wander all over the place sometimes going down to the elba which was only 3 kilometers away. The river still marks the border then but it wasnt yet heavily guarded in 1961 only a few would watch towers 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 warm are all or i dont cross farm called the Border Police really werent all that much of an issue. 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 histories to look for like minded friends. And this was the reson. I was around 15 then cover groups of kids who werent really politically committed any more unique than the poor leaders. Or the world really part of the political system and you had to find m ms esteems or. But it didnt take long to see who they were would. The boys make their plans to cross over to the west in the summer of 9621 day they were behaving and hatched a plan to swim across the new year harnessed reached its old village 3 days before their attempt could in camp join them in you have been booked from school. Was. The time gap joined us we werent about to call the whole thing off. And really even someone who knew about the plan would have been riskier than taking him with a rifle. On august the 4th 962 they took the train from cher into noir house about 5 kilometers from the elba. They waited in a restaurant into the light began to fade. Only then could they move into the restricted border area and kicked me over the head to stay away from drugs and ponds. And. Thats why our retreat it was probably night really dark we just kept heading in the direction of the angle with no compass but in all sure we heard boots clattering on the streets would move quickly into the next field and duck down until they were gone to the opening just before baezs and then we kept going for visits. They reached the dykes on the album just before dawn. It was already light. Thats really all we climbed up on to the dike that good could come google from the road suddenly get called out the guards are coming. We turn. Around and saw them about 50 or a 100 meters away or so we ran down right away and got in the water. The other of had secret service when dad saw the guard so it was every man for himself. I just started running. He went to group anymore everyone had to look after themselves with physics or math. Yohannes ran to the end of a break water and jumped into the river. And the goods as an all spin 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 fossicking. No one is in. Cant turn in camp was quick and made it to the water 1st. He wanted to get away from the bank and the guy so he. Picked 1st. And hit something hot probably a stun. Gun encamped was bleeding and i needed to bring. The deer can completely. Get and i were maybe 5 or 6 metres away from each other from 6 made though i wasnt done there. On. And 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 hes dead told. Apparently injured and without help get cant sank under the water. Meanwhile the 2nd border guard following a harness race defied a team with an automatic rifle. I dived as long as possible comm 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. Then 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 good to us for may give 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 he thought as all. We were kids and he was light of life he had a kind i wouldnt have had any trouble taking him with me if we hadnt been discovered. In the name of the. Can in chemistry. Of a new life in the west ended when he was almost there his death certificate noted. Can and camp was recovered from the fire 6 55 pm almost the 10th of 962. Hammond broke it 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 to honestly. Organize that all i said 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 its but in 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 bogart got off easy. So would be a sleepy had to promise to improve his attitude and began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer after military service me east german peoples army the n. B. A. He was rehabilitated and later even allowed to take over his parents you had his reach to found things in the west more difficult than he expected and started an odyssey through reception camps and hostels with the children of east germany e. G. Families were often left to their own devices. That was quite tough. Trying to make contact with relatives in the west and all that. Sometimes it was really frustrating. You had we had fairly close ties in our family and then it was just gone all at once like. A lie or you were just on your own 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 University after an amnesty from east germany he could even visit his family. That was almost as exciting as running away in the 1st place because i was really scared when i got to the border. Of the way the Border Guards came i thought. He could have arrested meghann even then after 10 years or colorado. Get case was reopened in 1995 but the investigation against the 2 Border Guards was then ploesti because get hadnt been hit by bullets. Was a bit different than john so in the end the actual guilty people were the officers or those who lets say gave the orders and made them do it over. These years counsel says to the whole system is simply unforgivable and thats just how it was. They always say that as a christian you should love your enemy. Was his but i just cant bring myself to do it for a leash. In 162 what the east german regime call the anti fascist defense wall was still largely un forces hired by 979 it was almost impregnable 30000 Border Guards patrolled the frontier day and night with orders to shoot to kill would be escapees who could not be stopped in the way day after day they would charge for 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 hominoids that. Knew the fly shower and his friend hike over in the wanted to reach the western or forest in the mountains. Pica was killed flash our texas in search of his memorial stone. Which is in there it is lizards that ross. This is supposed to be worth i go died. Someone we havent been able to find out who it was but the stone here is painted h. R. On it with hive is paid at a cross. You can still see the cross sources in. Illinois stat is insects me and heart it was once home to many chemical work as most had jobs in the big Chemical Plants and. If a fly shower and his body hardcover now grew up here they had known each other since they were little. And give a flash i was parents were Chemical Plant workers 2. Months. Other 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 to use 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 annoying is known for its prefabricated house. On the map just one of the citys main streets. Blocked 36 and a haka next employed 32. My name im 15 i have a sister school. I like doing stuff with my friends. In visit good friend of mine he doesnt like school either family failure. Was his friend who outgoing impulsive and funny and also to be. 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 10th grade. 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. Me if i wanted to go west. I said yes right away i couldnt stand it to him anymore. They took the train from hottentot house and i wanted to get to bend in the house reach an across the board nuthin if i shall i need the break from a trip on the huts cliff on narrow gate to our way during a family holiday. You know sometimes its like a picture we packed our backpacks and put on warm clothes because it was december Winter Weather and. We were sure wed make it as was almost so we had more stuff on impact than you could probably use in a day then we set off to the. Little. Mental mud you 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 or there. Trying to get to the west there was still determined. To try and invent i think right by the question for. Years and we got off the train and walked on the road as organ already entered the restricted area. The edge of the restricted area went right along the line you need to pass to go in there but. Without being checked the area was very tightly secured years and its also remote we came out of the woods and crossed this path will then there was a fence and we thought it was the fence for the real border i mean went through it once on the van we were at the edge of the woods and followed a cable channel towards the west has been listening on. What they didnt know was that it was only the 1st fence 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 authorities are 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 being. 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. Fly she get back then shooting at us. Even if you could already hear the shots they were aiming directly out of us because heiko jumped up again and ran back. Of the words that ended up shooting him in the back. 2 Border Guards killed 15 year old high corporal in a hail of bullets they fired 51 shots. The 2 Border Guards with 28 and 23 insult. The shooters were doing their duty that was supposed to prevent people crossing the from tia. The case records fobbed later said the Border Guards distinguished themselves by showing great rachel its a shot to kill. And 196. 00 mo frank climbs the chief prosecutor in the trial of the 2 former Border Guards youre going out and class smile. He says the death of hock obama is an example of the implacable lity of the east german border regime. Uniquely leaving the law vick a boyfriend back again i see 30 to 40 soldiers have been sent out and they were searching the small area he. Couldnt. As it were these issues are so in this case the shots werent actually to prevent them from crossing the border. To fight. And later a report by the stasi said he attempted illegal Border Crossing could have been prevented without shooting to kill. Even harder was doing his Compulsory Military Service in seoul working with the 2 Border Guards who did the shooting that day he was at the next guard post. When if they hadnt fired one or 2 Border Guards would have been sent after them or thats why there and they just would have been arrested. The door i wouldnt have gone through further along because after the alarm fence everything had been locked out. They wouldnt have gotten out of it. And say 2 guards hadnt been here or there then they just would have run straight across an up to fence number one its like everything there was completely might mean they would have run into a minefield and been shredded by that so they wouldnt have stood a chance gunshots. In the heart or showing the 2 guards who did the shooting was stationed in the barracks. They knew that the Border Guards were 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 for 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 our was taken away from the scene if his friends stay. In the barracks its over this is tims already working at full steam to ensure no accounts of what happened and then to chance. The shirt on the most where 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 stars he came in took me into an office and questioned me. As i had to undress completely the works of those soon over control of the that was my 1st interrogation. Of an image. While they were questioning even my shower his friends body was just put in a carriage at the barracks. Carried out an autopsy. 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. It is carried by its nature when saddams threat here on this National Front here. New provocations by enemy forces of daily. Insulting and even going as far shooting at Border Guards back in the vision of invade a country that should. I still dont get how we could be so cold blooded what 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 for the most. The stars he 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 his mother the whole story i thought. The plan to cover up the circumstances of the killing went into full swing the offices were told to say that woman had been accidentally killed cheering commission of a cron undercover stasi agents even attended who was very. High because friend if a flash hour was taken to hull or more interrogation in a prison called the bridge ox because the color prints the sod. Only then was his lawyer able to tell him that his friend heiko had been killed he was then interrogated to get several turns the volume they wanted to know how why and for what reason we decided to leave east germany to flee across the border how do we climate 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. Should you do lose im still angry at the shooters because you might say they had their orders well yes they did but the guns were in their hands their fingers on the trigger you know if you dont have to who. Would be and they had to decide whether to pull the trigger or not and whether to intrude. East german Border Guards was supposed to make special exceptions for children and young people but the official image of the caring east german state was merely a mosque because the border regime broke the world down into friend or enemy minus who want to leave the country or even wandered into the border zone was seen as enemies of the state and they debts written off as collateral damage. Only east germanys peaceful revolution and the fall of the berlin border in 1909 hardly put a stop to the fatalities on the. More. Contact to the future i know i did. It was designed to find. The new id 3. B. C. F. The class 2 to. Speak crane the intelligence of the 1st nations must come testing. All of the cars read. 30 minutes to. Be in good shape good fuel chronically ill you shouldnt work out that you should work arounds one disease heart problems back pain the joint pain its one treat the words better than any medication the sex itself. But most of congress is the right to take. 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