1962. The first killed near the Berlin Wall

55 years ago, on August 17, 1962, when trying to move through the Berlin wall, Peter Feuchter, a mason from East Berlin, died. This happened near the checkpoint "Charlie". Fechter was seriously wounded and died of blood loss, since almost an hour border guards of the GDR did not help him. He became the first dead on the Berlin border. In 1997, the border guards Rolf Frederick and Erich Schreiber were convicted of the murder of Fechter and sentenced to conditionally, respectively.