#BerlinWall
2 entries tagged BerlinWall.
People (1)
- Peter Fechter Peter Fechter was an eighteen-year-old East German bricklayer who became one of the Berlin Wall's most visible victims when, on August 17, 1962, he was shot while attempting to cross at Checkpoint Charlie and left dying in the death strip for nearly an hour while Western observers, journalists, and American soldiers watched without intervening.
Places (1)
- Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous Allied crossing point of the Berlin Wall, located on Friedrichstrasse in central Berlin, site of the October 1961 Soviet-American tank standoff, the August 1962 death of Peter Fechter, and the opening scenes of German reunification in November 1989.