The Berlin Wall bricklayer whose death became instrumental in its destruction. The fatal shooting of Peter Fechter created a simmering fury that was only becalmed when, on an astonishing night 30 ...

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 ...

8 A section of the wall - On August 17, 1962, 18-year-old Peter Fechter bled to death in the no-man's land between East and West Berlin after being shot trying to escape.

“The Wall,” muses a Berlin policeman, “is not just sad. It is not just ridiculous. It is schizophrenic. ... What brought them to the boil was the death of 18-year-old Peter Fechter, ...

Aug. 17, 1962: East German Peter Fechter is carried away by East German border guards who shot and killed him when he tried to cross the Berlin Wall into Western Germany. read more Share ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall Foundation estimates that at least 140 people died trying cross the wall from East to West Berlin. One of those the victims being remembered Sunday is Peter Fechter.

8 On August 17, 1962, 18-year-old Peter Fechter bled to death in the no-man's land between East and West Berlin after being shot trying to escape. Western cameramen recorded the scene for nearly ...