Word: heinrich
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When East German border guard Ingo Heinrich killed a man fleeing toward the freedom of West Berlin in February 1989, Heinrich was just following orders. "Shoot to kill" was the command for dealing with people who tried to escape across the border, and in the eyes of Heinrich's supervisors his actions were not merely legal but commendable. Three years later, Heinrich, 27, lives in the same Berlin, but a different government holds sway and new laws prevail. Now he is, retroactively, a felon. Last week he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- specifically...
...established in West Germany decades ago, during trials of former Nazi leaders. Like Seidel, many Germans would apply the same theory in judging the discredited communist regime. But there are troubling doubts about the fairness of the principle or how it is applied. That was abundantly clear in Heinrich's case: right after the verdict, the prosecution joined the defense in vowing to appeal the sentence as too harsh...
...fair to single out Heinrich and a few others for what many did? During the 28 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany's once and future capital, an estimated 200 people were killed and 700 injured. Hundreds of sharpshooters were involved. Given the difficulty of reconstructing events up to decades old, only 38 shooters have been identified. Although hundreds of thousands of East Germans spied on friends and neighbors and millions were complicit in some part of the government, only about 500 people are under investigation, many for schemes involving fraud for personal gain rather than diligence to duty...
...Heinrich Schliemann: The Myth and the Scandal--with William Calder, professor of classics with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In the Boylston Hall auditorium...
Schola Cantorum of Boston-with director Frederick Jodry performs Heinrich Schutz's Musicalisches Exequien at the First Church Congregational, Mason and Garden Streets in Harvard Square. Tickets are $10, $6 for students and elders. Call 983-5271. Sunday...