The refugee, Peter Fechter, died from blood loss on the strip of the border. Protest At The Reichstag Photo by Jung/ullstein bild via Getty Images. This is another image of a protest, from May of 1962 ...

Memorial of Peter Fechter, (January 14, 1944 - August 17, 1962), a German bricklayer from East Berlin, who, at the age of 18, became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall border guards.The ...

The flight of the Dalai Lama to India, the death of Peter Fechter at the Berlin Wall, Martin Luther King’s Freedom March in America's Northern cities, the Watergate Scandal, his 1990s reports on ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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 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, ...

Der erschossene Peter Fechter gibt den vielen unbekannten Mauertoten ein Gesicht. Am Dienstag wurde an seiner Gedenkstele an der Zimmerstraße dem mörderischen Mauerbau vor 63 Jahren gedacht. Am ...

Edward Kennedy slips quietly into East Berlin. ... an 18-year-old called Peter Fechter was killed while trying to escape from East to West Berlin. He was shot while climbing over the wall and left ...

Peter Fechters Tod an der Berliner Mauer am 17. August 1962 löst weltweit Entsetzen aus. DDR-Grenzensoldaten schießen auf den 18-Jährigen. Er verblutet vor den Augen der Welt. Am 14. Januar ...