3 April 1962 · Guards who fled
A border guard is shot down 15 metres from the line at Dreilinden
On 3 April 1962 a GDR border guard tried to reach West Berlin at the Dreilinden control point. A comrade set his dog on him and shot him. Badly wounded, he lay 15 metres from the border until he was taken away.
On 3 April 1962 a GDR border guard tried to reach West Berlin territory at the Dreilinden control point. A second border guard set his service dog on him and fired two shots from his submachine gun.
The fleeing guard was hit and lay badly wounded about 15 metres from the border. A squad of 15 border guards then took him away in a lorry towards Babelsberg.
The report gives neither his name nor what became of him.
Sources
Whose account is this? Told from a Western official record only.
Western official records
- Report of the West Berlin Schutzpolizei for April 1962Chronik der Mauer (document: Polizeihistorische Sammlung des Polizeipräsidenten in Berlin)
Facts checked against the sources: September 2026
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