What the records say
- When
- 17 Aug 1962
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 52.51° N, 13.39° E
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
Killing of Peter Fechter
18 year old German bricklayer killed crossing the Berlin wall in 1962
Peter Fechter was an East German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border guards while trying to cross over to West Berlin.
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