Sunny view three rows monochrome photographs 34 Berlin Wall victims, killed 1961-1963, Window of Remembrance, Bernauer Strasse


The Window of Remembrance was built 2010 to remember victims of the Berlin Wall. The corroded memorial simulates the Iron Curtain division and includes photographs, dates of birth, death of people escaping or deemed to be escaping by the border guards. Top, left to right: Udo Dullick (3/8/1936-5/10/1961) drowned Spree; Dieter Wohlfart (27/5/1941-912/1961) shot, helping others to escape; Heinz Jercha (1/7/1937-27/3/1962) shot; Peter Bohme (17/8/1942-18/4/1962) shot fire-fight; Axel Hannemann (27/4/1945-5/6/1962) shot Spree; Siegfried Noffke (9/12/1939-28/6/1962) shot; Ernst Mundt (2/12/1921-4/9/1962) shot; Otfried Reck (14/2/1944-27/11/1962) shot; Peter Kreitlow (15/1/1943-24/1/1963) shot by Soviet Troops; Klaus Schroter (21/2/1941-4/11/1963) drowned Spree, after being shot. Middle: Werner Probst (18/6/1936-14/10/1961) shot Spree; Ingo Kruger (31/1/1940-11/12/1961) drowned Spree; Philipp Held (2/5/1942-April 1962) drowned Spree; Horst Frank (7/5/1942-29/4/1962) shot; Erna Kelm (21/7/1908-11/6/1962) drowned Havel; Peter Fechter (14/1/1944-17/8/1962) shot, allowed to bleed to death; Anton Walzer (27/4/1902-3/10/1962) shot Spree; Gunter Wiedenhof (14/2/1942-6/12/1962) drowned; Hans Rawel (11/12/1941-1/1/1963) shot Spree; Wolf-Olaf Muszynski (1/2/1947-February 1963) drowned Spree; Dietmar Schultz (21/10/1939-25/11963) hit by train. Bottom: Lothar Lehman (28/1/1942-26/11/1961) drowned Havel; Georg Feldhahn (12/8/1941-19/12/1961) drowned Spree, after desertion; Dorit Schmiel (25/4/1941-19/2/1962) shot; Klaus Brueske (14/9/1938-13/4/1962) suffocated sand carried crashed escape lorry; Lutz Haberlandt (29/4/1938-27/5/1962) shot; Wolfgang Glode (1/2/1949-11/6/1962) shot accidentally, age 13, by guard showing him AK-47; Hans-Dieter Wesa (16/1/1943-23/8/1962) shot; Horst Plischke (12/7/1939-19/11/1962) drowned Spree; Horst Kutscher (15/7/194115/1/1963) shot; Peter Madler (6/7/1943-26/4/1963) shot Teltow Canal; Dieter Betger (27/7/1939-13/12/1963) shot drunkenly climbing fence.


Size: 5471px × 3648px
Location: Berlin Wall Victims Window of Remembrance, Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, Germany
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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