Former Stasi officer jailed for shooting Pole trying to flee to the West in 1974
A Berlin court found former Stasi officer Martin Naumann guilty of killing Czeslaw Kukuczka as he tried to flee to the West through the Friedrichstrasse border point in Berlin in 1974. At least 140 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989, and many hundreds more died … Read more
