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Every so often in the old days, the Communist East Germans shot individuals or even families attempting to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany.(The Week)(Brief article)
Every so often in the old days, the Communist East Germans shot individuals or even families attempting to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany. One reliable estimate is that 780 freedom-seekers lost their lives in this way. It was always hard for the Communist party and its secret police and border guards to explain why they were murdering their own people, and they always maintained that there was no order to shoot. The border guards were so zealous, or perhaps nervous, that these incidents just happened. Specialists in the past had in ...
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