Written by team Stasi victims (www.stasiopfer.de) By Stefan Appelius
not just on the wall, even at the borders of the socialist "brother countries" SED hunting guide was to "fleeing the republic" to make. Bulgarian border guards at the East Berlin regime apparently paid a real premium for each head shot East Germans. Their bodies were simply buried in the border strip.
"fleeing the republic": So were known to the SED citizens who wanted the GDR to the West. The rulers wanted to East Berlin, they were considered enemies of the state and criminals, whose flight had to be prevented, what it cost - even if it meant their death. By the end of 1989, died after latest findings probably 600-800 East refugees in Berlin Wall and German-German border.
Targeted East German citizens were killed on the way west but within Germany, not only at the border. The flight of the socialist "brother" countries such as Hungary and Bulgaria was highly dangerous and not ended rarely fatal. In the Balkan republic on the Black Sea, it was particularly bloody and brutal - with the express approval of the SED in the Upper East Berlin.
According to former Bulgarian border officers, published by the Bulgarian magazine "anti-" already in early 1993, counted the East German embassy in Sofia Bulgarian border guards killed for every East German refugee, a bonus of 2,000 leva, then converted about 1000 D-Mark - in the impoverished Bulgaria, a small fortune. In addition, the policeman who shot him were honored with several days' special leave, one in the GDR and other Eastern bloc countries, a common practice. Former Bulgarian employees of the East German Embassy in Sofia confirmed to the magazine at the time that Bulgarian border guards had received at "foiled border violations" bounties from the GDR. The report remained in Germany but largely ignored.
buried in the border strip
If East German authorities have actually paid money to Bulgarian border guards head for the killing curse of willing citizens who would possibly also explain why individual East German refugees in Bulgaria with shots to the back of the head were executed literally. This form of death, which was last documented in a case of July 1989, clearly demonstrated by autopsy reports.
misanthropy was even dealing with the remains of the victims. From now known records of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) shows that the bodies were buried on the border of dead East German citizens in Bulgaria until the mid-seventies, only a few cases in cemeteries. In general, they were buried on the spot in the border area - where they were partially eaten by wild animals. "In the border area were human bones discovered that had been brought from jackals and stray dogs from the earth, "says one of the editors a day of identified high-school teacher from Sofia, who has studied for years the fate of East German refugees in Bulgaria.
evidence of this inhumane practice was now in Stasi Files found secret agreement, which had closed the East German Embassy in Sofia in late February 1975 with the Bulgarian Prosecutor General. It was determined that the bodies of the border area killed East German "criminals" were to lead to future or on a "public cemetery of the People's Republic of Bulgaria "had to bury -. in reverse until then so it was not the place Agreement between East Germany and Bulgaria was the result of years of struggle of the parents of two teenagers shot in Bulgaria, East Germany, whose corpses had disappeared without a trace. The parents had not let in their struggle for an explanation of the deaths intimidated as other members of the East German authorities.
unknown whereabouts
Until now, the whereabouts of the remains of several of shot in Bulgaria, GDR citizens unknown. Somewhat sure is: they were not burned, because that was forbidden by law in Bulgaria. Shortly before the end of the People's Republic in 1990 under the then Bulgarian interior minister said Atanas Semerdjiev excavations in the border area, to officially respect to the "peace of the grave of the dead", so then the SPIEGEL. Until today may express neither the Home Office nor the press office of the Bulgarian border troops to the former operations. Interview requests from Germany have been rejected, denied any access to the file.
How many East Germans trying to escape were killed in Bulgaria, will be probably never find out exactly. According to the Bulgarian border guards whole families with women and children were "wiped out". Today in Stasi files known that there were at least 2,000 attempted escapes by East German citizens on the Bulgarian borders. But so far only 17 East German victims of the Bulgarian border regime are known by name.
Not one of the policeman who shot at the Bulgarian border was sentenced today in force, nor the politically responsible former members of the Politburo of the BCP. Unlike other East Bloc countries, the "instructions for use of firearms in the border region" remained in the Balkan republic after the fall unchanged for years in power. This had to experience the German Ambassador Chris Steffler: In summer 1994, she was by the Bulgarian police in a drive held in the border area, because you do the necessary "special permit" was missing.
"These are East Germans who were killed abroad"
In the Federal Republic is the interest in the Terms with this tragic chapter of German-German history have been weak. So apply those East Germans who were trying to escape the "extended wall" abroad killed, still not as victims of the GDR regime - the legislature has neglected this group of people simply. To date, no one feels responsible for the mortal remains of these refugees, where their graves are known at all, to convict in the Federal Republic.
The graves of those who were shot at the Bulgarian border Germans who were in the eighties, transferred to East Germany and buried there, may for lack of legal basis, until today, "victim Tombs be converted and may not be entirely preserved permanently as memorials. These dead were not victims of totalitarian tyranny, the competent subject leader said in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development to request: "These are East Germans who were killed overseas."
SPON of 07.11.2007, by Stefan Appelius
not just on the wall, even at the borders of the socialist "brother countries" SED hunting guide was to "fleeing the republic" to make. Bulgarian border guards at the East Berlin regime apparently paid a real premium for each head shot East Germans. Their bodies were simply buried in the border strip.
"fleeing the republic": So were known to the SED citizens who wanted the GDR to the West. The rulers wanted to East Berlin, they were considered enemies of the state and criminals, whose flight had to be prevented, what it cost - even if it meant their death. By the end of 1989, died after latest findings probably 600-800 East refugees in Berlin Wall and German-German border.
Targeted East German citizens were killed on the way west but within Germany, not only at the border. The flight of the socialist "brother" countries such as Hungary and Bulgaria was highly dangerous and not ended rarely fatal. In the Balkan republic on the Black Sea, it was particularly bloody and brutal - with the express approval of the SED in the Upper East Berlin.
According to former Bulgarian border officers, published by the Bulgarian magazine "anti-" already in early 1993, counted the East German embassy in Sofia Bulgarian border guards killed for every East German refugee, a bonus of 2,000 leva, then converted about 1000 D-Mark - in the impoverished Bulgaria, a small fortune. In addition, the policeman who shot him were honored with several days' special leave, one in the GDR and other Eastern bloc countries, a common practice. Former Bulgarian employees of the East German Embassy in Sofia confirmed to the magazine at the time that Bulgarian border guards had received at "foiled border violations" bounties from the GDR. The report remained in Germany but largely ignored.
buried in the border strip
If East German authorities have actually paid money to Bulgarian border guards head for the killing curse of willing citizens who would possibly also explain why individual East German refugees in Bulgaria with shots to the back of the head were executed literally. This form of death, which was last documented in a case of July 1989, clearly demonstrated by autopsy reports.
misanthropy was even dealing with the remains of the victims. From now known records of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) shows that the bodies were buried on the border of dead East German citizens in Bulgaria until the mid-seventies, only a few cases in cemeteries. In general, they were buried on the spot in the border area - where they were partially eaten by wild animals. "In the border area were human bones discovered that had been brought from jackals and stray dogs from the earth, "says one of the editors a day of identified high-school teacher from Sofia, who has studied for years the fate of East German refugees in Bulgaria.
evidence of this inhumane practice was now in Stasi Files found secret agreement, which had closed the East German Embassy in Sofia in late February 1975 with the Bulgarian Prosecutor General. It was determined that the bodies of the border area killed East German "criminals" were to lead to future or on a "public cemetery of the People's Republic of Bulgaria "had to bury -. in reverse until then so it was not the place Agreement between East Germany and Bulgaria was the result of years of struggle of the parents of two teenagers shot in Bulgaria, East Germany, whose corpses had disappeared without a trace. The parents had not let in their struggle for an explanation of the deaths intimidated as other members of the East German authorities.
unknown whereabouts
Until now, the whereabouts of the remains of several of shot in Bulgaria, GDR citizens unknown. Somewhat sure is: they were not burned, because that was forbidden by law in Bulgaria. Shortly before the end of the People's Republic in 1990 under the then Bulgarian interior minister said Atanas Semerdjiev excavations in the border area, to officially respect to the "peace of the grave of the dead", so then the SPIEGEL. Until today may express neither the Home Office nor the press office of the Bulgarian border troops to the former operations. Interview requests from Germany have been rejected, denied any access to the file.
How many East Germans trying to escape were killed in Bulgaria, will be probably never find out exactly. According to the Bulgarian border guards whole families with women and children were "wiped out". Today in Stasi files known that there were at least 2,000 attempted escapes by East German citizens on the Bulgarian borders. But so far only 17 East German victims of the Bulgarian border regime are known by name.
Not one of the policeman who shot at the Bulgarian border was sentenced today in force, nor the politically responsible former members of the Politburo of the BCP. Unlike other East Bloc countries, the "instructions for use of firearms in the border region" remained in the Balkan republic after the fall unchanged for years in power. This had to experience the German Ambassador Chris Steffler: In summer 1994, she was by the Bulgarian police in a drive held in the border area, because you do the necessary "special permit" was missing.
"These are East Germans who were killed abroad"
In the Federal Republic is the interest in the Terms with this tragic chapter of German-German history have been weak. So apply those East Germans who were trying to escape the "extended wall" abroad killed, still not as victims of the GDR regime - the legislature has neglected this group of people simply. To date, no one feels responsible for the mortal remains of these refugees, where their graves are known at all, to convict in the Federal Republic.
The graves of those who were shot at the Bulgarian border Germans who were in the eighties, transferred to East Germany and buried there, may for lack of legal basis, until today, "victim Tombs be converted and may not be entirely preserved permanently as memorials. These dead were not victims of totalitarian tyranny, the competent subject leader said in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development to request: "These are East Germans who were killed overseas."
SPON of 07.11.2007, by Stefan Appelius
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