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...always, many an attempt ended in tragedy. Near the border resort of Hohegeiss, a crowd of Swedish and Danish tourists watched horrified as a man, wheezing with exhaustion, struggled to climb a pole over the barbed wire. Rushing up with guns blazing, Red border guards kept pumping bullets into him even after he dropped to the ground, left the body for two hours in the weeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wall: Block That Midget | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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