German guards convicted of killing escaper

Tomforde, Anne
Date Written:  1992-01-26
Publisher:  Guardian Weekly
Year Published:  1992
Resource Type:  Article

Two former East German border guards were convicted of killing a person who attempted to escape over the wall. This will open the floodgates for similar trials as two hundred were killed trying to escape under the East German shoot to kill policy.

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