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The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989 by Hans-Hermann Hertle/Maria Nooke August 2011 Special CWIHP Research Report The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989 By Hans-Hermann Hertle/Maria Nooke August 2011 Forty-four years after the Berlin Wall was built and 15 years after the East German archives were opened, reliable data on the number of people killed at the Wall were still lacking. Depending on the sources, purpose, and date of the studies, the figures varied between 78 (Central Registry of State Judicial Administrations in Salzgitter), 86 (Berlin Public Prosecution Service), 92 (Berlin Police President), 122 (Central Investigation Office for Government and Unification Criminality), and more than 200 deaths (Working Group 13 August). The names of many of the victims, their biographies and the circumstances in which they died were widely unknown.1 This special CWIHP report summarizes the findings of a research project by the Center for Research on Contemporary History Potsdam and the Berlin Wall Memorial Site and Documentation Center which sought to establish the number and identities of the individuals who died at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989 and to document their lives and deaths through historical and biographical research.2 Definition In order to provide reliable figures, the project had to begin by developing clear criteria and a definition of what individuals are to be considered victims at the Berlin Wall. We regard the “provable causal and spatial connection of a death with an attempted escape or a direct or indirect cause or lack of action by the ‘border organs’ in the border territory” as the critical factor. In simpler terms: the criteria are either an attempted escape or a temporal and spatial link between the death and the border regime. This applies regardless of whether the death was caused by the use of firearms, or by an accident in the border facilities, and independently of whether it took place directly on the death strip, in the no man’s land, or after transportation to a hospital – hours, days, weeks, months or, as in the case of Herbert Mende, even years later. Our definition thus also includes deaths not covered by the criminal prosecutions of acts of violence on the border, as these concentrated solely on cases, in which another individual was directly involved. 1| These observations also apply to those killed on the inner-German border, on the borders to third countries and in the Baltic. See: Hans-Hermann Hertle/Gerhard Sälter, “Die Todesopfer an Mauer und Grenze. Probleme einer Bilanz des DDR-Grenzregimes”, in Deutschland Archiv 4/2006, 667-676. This article also includes numerous references to primary sources and secondary literature. 2| See: Hans-Hermann Hertle/Maria Nooke (eds.), The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961–1989. A Biographical Handbook, published by Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Berlin 2011. All sources not otherwise stated are contained in this publication. The biographical portraits can also be read on the website www.chronik-der-mauer.de. – The following individuals worked on the project, the book, and the findings presented below: Udo Baron, Christine Brecht, Martin Ahrends and Lydia Dollmann. 1 | Page Sources The project registered and researched a total of 575 deaths and suspected cases. The project team checked these cases and wrote the biographies on the basis of broad archive and material research. ● For the first time, this project was able to evaluate the case files of the Berlin and Neuruppin public prosecution services, prepared in the course of investigations on acts of violence at the Wall: a total of more than 150 investigation files and over 70 pre-investigation files. ● In response to an application to the archive of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the Ministry of State Security in the former German Democratic Republic (BStU), we were provided with records on more than 100 deaths and suspected cases. ● In the Federal Archives’ Military Archive, the project team was able to research some 300 cases in the files of the GDR National Defense Ministry, the GDR border troops and the military public prosecution service. ● Wide-ranging research, material viewing, and evaluation also took place in the Police History Collection of the Berlin Police President, the Federal Archive in Berlin and Koblenz, the Berlin Archive, the Brandenburg Central Archive, the Political Archive of the Foreign Office, the Archive of the Central Registry of State Judicial Administrations in Salzgitter and in various press, radio and photo archives. In order to gain insights into the victims’ motivations and living conditions independently of official documents from East and West Germany, the project team sought to contact their families and friends, succeeding in more than 70 cases. This meant that personal memories and family contexts could be included in numerous biographies. Findings The case reviews led to the following findings: ● At least 136 people were shot dead, suffered fatal accidents or committed suicide after a failed escape attempt across the Berlin Wall. ● In 16 more cases, the archive material was not sufficient to prove whether or not the individual was a victim of the Berlin Wall or not. These cases concern drownings in which the identity of the body is unknown and there is no clear proof of attempted escapes or links to the border regime. As such criteria cannot be ruled out, however, these and eight more cases on which no archival material could be found – thus a total of 24 cases – could not be identified as victims. ● 164 suspected cases were ruled out as victims at the Berlin Wall, as there was neither an indication of an escape attempt, nor a spatial link with the border regime, nor were there any deaths. These cases include, for example, escapees who survived shootings with severe injuries, or individuals alleged by West Berlin sources to have been involved in escape attempts, which can however be proved not to have taken 2 | Page place. Dual counts due to imprecise information were excluded from the figures, as were suicides in Berlin waterways that could be proved to have no relation to escape attempts.3 ● At least 251 mainly elderly travelers from East and West Germany died before, during, or after passing through a Berlin checkpoint, predominantly as a result of heart attacks. There were at least 227 deaths of this type at the Friedrichstraße Station border crossing. These included 164 GDR citizens, 40 West Berliners, 20 West Germans, one Czechoslovakian and two GDR citizens intending to pass through the checkpoint with permission to emigrate to West Germany. As a general rule, however, the sources provide neither the precise places, nor the circumstances of these deaths. In other words, it remains unclear whether the individuals in question died before, during, or after passing through the checkpoint or even during an interrogation. Not every death is therefore necessarily linked to the border regime. At the same time, however, the many deaths of travelers at GDR crossing points cannot be seen independently of the Berlin Wall and the East German border regime. Further research is certainly necessary on this subject. At Least 136 Victims at the Berlin Wall The 136 victims at the Berlin Wall include: 98 escapees shot dead, suffering fatal accidents or committing suicide during an attempt to cross the border; 30 individuals from East and West Germany who were shot or had a fatal accident with no intent to escape; Eight GDR border soldiers killed in service by military deserters, fellow soldiers, an escapee, an escape agent or a West Berlin police officer. Two thirds of the deaths occurred on the sector border inside the city; 46 people died at the Wall between Berlin and Brandenburg, referred to as the outer ring (including 34 escapees, eight individuals from East and West Germany with no escape intentions and four border guards). Approximately half of the 136 deaths took place in the first five years of the Wall’s existence (including 1966, this figure is just under 60 percent). The year 1967 formed an initial turning point, with the number of victims falling significantly from this point on. The main reason for this development is the technical modernization of the border, which had begun in 1966 (construction of the “modern border”). A second turning point can be discerned from 1976 on: In the first 15 years after the Wall was built, from 1961 to 1975, a total of 118 people died in connection with the GDR border regime (i.e. 86.8 % of all victims); the almost equally long period from 1976 to 1989 occasioned 18 victims (13.2% ). 3| For a detailed look at these cases, see: Hertle/Nooke, The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961–1989, 464 f. 3 | Page This clear reduction is primarily due to the continued technical enhancements to the border facilities (electronic alarms = “border signal fence 74”; border wall 75) and to intensified guarding of the area before the Wall itself. A further reason was the Helsinki Accords signed in August 1975. Escape attempts across the border facilities fell as a result, with less dangerous emigration applications rising in contrast. VICTIMS AT THE BERLIN WALL 1961 to 1989 Year Total Of whom: Of whom: Of whom: Of Escapees Individuals with no Individuals with no whom: intent to escape intent to escape Border East German West German guards 1961 12 11 1 - 1962 22 15 1 2 4 1963 10 8 1 1 1964 10 8 1 1 1965 12 8 1 3 1966 12 9 3 1967 2 2 1968 7 4 1 1 1 1969 3 3 1970 8 4 2 2 1971 4 1 3 1972 4 3 1 1973 5 4 1 1974 3 1 1 1 1975 4 2 1 1 1976 - - 4 | Page VICTIMS AT
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