Berlin Wall

Week of Jan. 3, 1964
Two 18-year-old East Germans attempting to scale the Berlin Wall at dusk on Christmas Day are cut down by East German border guards. "Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, electrician's apprentice Paul Schultz became the first would-be Wall buster to die on a C hristmas Day."

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