How GDR citizens tried to escape between 1961 and 1988

How GDR citizens tried to escape between 1961 and 1988 | History Stories

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@gringofirst8052 7 ай бұрын

I still can’t accept that after the fall of the wall , the responsible persons were not brought to justice. They were their own people. Many of the responsible vanished in government positions, it’s disgusting. It has puzzled me for years.

@thethirdman225 6 ай бұрын

It would be pretty hard to unify a country if you’re going to vilify some of the leaders, no matter how much you think you’re right in doing so.

@mmoff3 5 ай бұрын

Erich Honnecker never faced justice. Agreed, unacceptable. He gave direct orders to shoot escapees, even when they already made it to West Berlin. That had potential to escalate Cold War out lf nowhere

@Steve14ps 4 ай бұрын

Egon Krenz and Günter Schabowski both received prison sentences, as were others

@pascalgotlib1781 3 ай бұрын

Le pouvoir communiste à le droit de se protéger et est plus légitime que celui de l'ouest car dans cette partie de l'Allemagne, le pays a été totalement denazifiee

@larryk731 Ай бұрын

I wonder how many people involved were still alive in 1989.

@SuperBuildsInMC 11 ай бұрын

"Democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in..." - JFK

@Philertman 10 ай бұрын

Tankies: BuT THaT wAsNt rEaL cOmMuNiSm!1!

@lundsweden 10 ай бұрын

There is some truth in what JFK said, but millions migrated from Capitalist countries such as Greece, Italy, England. The difference is, their governments didn't try and stop them.

@_o..o_1871 9 ай бұрын

@@Philertman Ok na*i

@Philertman 9 ай бұрын

@@_o..o_1871 ???????

@Philertman 9 ай бұрын

@@_o..o_1871 nazism communism and facism are terrible there is no denying

@margritpiepes8242 7 ай бұрын

Everyone needs to see these focus so it won’t be forgotten

@neilfoster814 2 ай бұрын

I've often wondered just how many Gestapo members became active members of the STASI post WW2? I would bet there was quite a few. One of the worst cases of escapees being shot was the case of Peter Fechter. At just 18 years old, he was gunned down just inches from the west, and left for over an hour bleeding to death at the foot of the wall in view of everyone, nobody went to help for fear of sparking an international incident.

@meowsaidthecat5338 Ай бұрын

@@neilfoster814 I doubt any were hired If they were known to have been Nazi Party members, as Communist hated the Nazi Party. However, if you flew under the radar than I guess it was possible.

@dorotawolska2000 Ай бұрын

A ILU ZOSTALO SLUGAMI USA😂

@Steve14ps Ай бұрын

There is a memorial to Peter Fechter in Bernauer Straße

@neilfoster814 Ай бұрын

@@Steve14ps Yes, indeed there is!

@sal-z3q 2 ай бұрын

Nowadays people would want to get back in the DDR but it is not there anymore 😢

@PrincepratapsinghRawat-cw5em 27 күн бұрын

No one wants that back 😂

@sal-z3q 27 күн бұрын

@@PrincepratapsinghRawat-cw5em I do

5 ай бұрын

It was the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who once said he had a dream - a dream that one day segregation would be ended and that his people would be "free at last, free at last." In the homeland of the original Martin Luther, that dream came true on November 9th 1989. To paraphrase that great speech, the little girls and boys of the East would sit down at the same table as the little girls and boys of the West before Almighty God as One. The real tragedy of the Wall, apart from the victims who lost their lives, was that many of the perpetrators of that monstrosity were never brought to justice. Those that were tried received very light sentences. Never forget those who fell, fought and died for freedom.✝️✝️✝️

@МиколаПургенюк 4 ай бұрын

Real communism proved to be a step backward in social development , not a step forward in comparison with capitalism ( as Marxist theory teaches ). It was serfdom and feudalism, threat of war between ,,progressive nations`` like SU and China ( due to CPs ideological differences ). When I happened to visit the GDR, I had the feeling that this was a ,,chemical``, unnatural country with idiotised population though higher living standards as compared with the Soviet Union. Both vanished but we in Russia received an unprecedented criminal capitalism which lasts despite all theories of ,,progress``.

@OffendingTheOffendable Ай бұрын

What a horrid government and mindset Russia has

@gsw007 23 күн бұрын

Were they not playing north korea rules whereby if you escape they round up your family and they're never seen again ?

@khairulnaeim756 6 ай бұрын

Maybe base on group that have arms not people.....army turn become something else...not because a country... economy not in focus...it real bad after war..