Artist Florian Brauer’s sculpture ‘Mauerdenkmal 1000’ (‘Wall memorial 1000’) sits on the so-called ‘death strip’ at the former Berlin Wall site. It depicts Peter Fechter being ...

A court convicted two former East German border guards of manslaughter Wednesday for the 1962 killing of Peter Fechter, a 17-year-old mason who was shot and bled to death at the Berlin Wall as his ...

The regime’s contempt for human life was writ large in the fate of Peter Fechter, a mere 18 years old. On Aug. 17, 1962, while trying to get over the Wall, Fechter was gunned down.

Berlin will long remember a young East German named Peter Fechter who last summer tried to escape across the Wall and was shot down by the Red border cops. Wounded, he was left to bleed to death ...

In the 1960s, it was beyond imagination to think the Berlin Wall would ever come down. In 1989, it did. ... Peter Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik were young — all of 18.

Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old bricklayer, was shot while attempting to climb over the Wall. For 50 minutes he begged for help as he slowly bled to death from his wounds in sight of soldiers and ...

This 1962 U.S. Information Agency film produced by Hearst Metrotone News showed the situation before the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the changes in the year following.

One, 18-year-old Peter Fechter, was shot in 1962 while trying to scale the wall and left to bleed to death in the no-man’s-land, West German soldiers throwing him bandages in vain.

After bringing Berlin to ... More than 300 East Berliners turned out for the funeral of Peter Fechter, the 18-year-old bricklayer who had been shot and left to die while trying to cross the Wall.

This 1962 newsreel from Hearst Metrotone News showed the situation before the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and ... including 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who was shot and left ...