A couple views a photograph of shooting victim Peter Fechter at the Berlin Wall memorial site in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: Newscom) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Venice, Italy — In 1962, two men from East Berlin attempted a daring escape to the West. Peter Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik were young — all of 18. On Aug. 17, the pair slipped ...

Scenes showed families attempting to communicate across the wall and many successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, including 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who was shot and left to die beside the ...

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 ...

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.

The Berlin Wall was breached 20 years ago on November 9, 1989. Here are some key dates in the history of the Berlin Wall.

Scenes showed families attempting to communicate across the wall and many successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, including 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who was shot and left to die beside the ...