On 17 August 1962, 18-year-old would-be escapee Peter Fechter was shot and wounded by Berlin Wall border guards and then left to bleed to death as the guards looked on. A simple memorial pillar on Zimmerstrasse marks the site where he died.
Peter Fechter Memorial
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