#peter fechter

[leitoracomcompanhia]

“Leamas rogou a Deus que estivesse morto”

John Le Carré, “O Espião que saiu do Frio”; Peter Fechter, que tentou passar o muro em 1962, fotografia da polícia de Berlim.

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August 17, 1962 FECHTER Peter Fechter was a German bricklayer from Berlin in what became East Germany in 1945. About 1 year after the construction of the wall Fechter attempted to flee from East Germany together with his friend Helmut Kulbeik. The plan was to hide in a carpenter's workshop near the wall and after observing the border guards from there to jump out of a window into the "death-strip" (a strip running between the main wall and a parallel fence which they had recently started to construct), run across it and climb over the 2 metre wall topped with barbed wire into the Kreuzberg district of West Berlin. When both reached the wall guards fired at them. Although Kulbeik succeeded in crossing the wall Fechter still on the wall was shot in the pelvis in plain view of hundreds of witnesses. He fell back into the death-strip on the Eastern side where he remained in view of western onlookers including journalists. Despite his screams he received no medical assistance from the East side and couldn't be tended to by those on the west side. Western police threw him bandages which he couldn't reach. He bled to death after approximately 1 hour. He was 18 and he became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall's East German border guards. As a result of his death hundreds in West Berlin formed a spontaneous demonstration shouting "Murderers!" at the border guards. The lack of medical assistance for Peter Fechter was attributed to mutual fear: western bystanders were apparently prevented at gunpoint from assisting him although according to a report in Time Magazine a US second lieutenant on the scene received specific orders from the US Commandant in West Berlin to stand firm and do nothing. It also emerged during the trial that any aid attempt from the West had indeed been made impossible but according to a report from forensic pathologist Otto Prokop "Fechter had no chance of survival. The shot in the right hip had caused severe internal injuries". Likewise the head of the East German border platoon stated that he was afraid to intervene because of an incident just 3 days earlier when an East German soldier Rudi Arnstadt had probably been shot by a Western federal policeman. Nonetheless the East German border soldiers did retrieve Peter Fechter's body an hour after he had died. 

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Sólo quería ser libre

“Libre” La canción “Libre” de Nino Bravo está inspirada en la historia de Peter Fechter, un joven de poco más de 18 años, “casi veinte años”, que fue el primer alemán que intentó saltar en 1962 el recién estrenado muro de Berlín. (Al final tenéis el vídeo) Llegó al muro acompañado de un amigo, Helmut Kubelik, que por suerte si llegó rebasarlo, pero Peter, una vez que “extendió sus alas” y se…

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Im Schatten der Mauer verblutet : Berlin gedenkt Peter Fechter

Vor 60 Jahren wurde Peter Fechter nahe dem Checkpoint Charlie erschossen. Sein Tod vor aller Augen machte ihn zur Symbolfigur.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

August 17, 1962

Killing of Peter Fechter at the Berlin Wall

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Accadde Oggi: 17 Agosto 1962

Le guardie di confine della Germania Est uccidono il diciottenne Peter Fechter mentre tenta di attraversare il Muro di Berlino per portarsi a Berlino Ovest.

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[oh-so-heavenly]

Friendly reminder that the Spanish song 'Libre' by Nino Bravo is about Peter Fechter, it is one of my favourite songs about freedom and I think many people forget it's message.

You can check out the lyrics in English here

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Accadde Oggi: 17 Agosto 1962

Le guardie di confine della Germania Est uccidono il diciottenne Peter Fechter mentre tenta di attraversare il Muro di Berlino per portarsi a Berlino Ovest.

Continua su Aforismi di un pazzo.