Resurfaced document on GDR Shoot-to-Kill Policy

by kkaefer | August 13, 2007 at 11:14 am

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Several days ago, a document demanding border control to shoot everyone trying to illegally leave the GDR. Even children and women are no exception, according to the resurfaced document. Now the political discussion about the accounting for the past of the GDR recommences.

After a document resurfaced last week detailing the former East Germany's policy of shoot-to-kill at the Berlin Wall, politicians from all sides have joined ranks to call for a criminal investigation into the practice.
German politicians joined together in outrage Monday over the resurfacing of a document detailing the shoot-to-kill policy of East German border guards during the Cold War and called for a judicial inquiry and criminal investigation.