Victim of the Iron Curtain

Victim of the Iron Curtain

Border facilities between Austria and Czechoslovakia on March (photo from 1989).
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Numerous people died across the borders of the Eastern Bloc when attempts to escape from the GDR. A manual reconstructed her fate.

Hartmut Tautz was 18 years old when he decided in 1986 to leave the GDR. He wrote to his mother in a farewell letter that he “no alternative to

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