Commie whitewashers shut down: Stasi shot to kill at the Berlin Wall
There are horrid, deluded people out there still pretending that East Germany was actually some sort of worker's paradise. It just got a little harder when this evidence emerged:
Seventeen years after German reunification, archivists have found the first written proof that East German border guards had been ordered to shoot to kill anyone trying to escape to West Germany, including women and children.But you can't deter the true believers:
Egon Krenz, the last Communist leader of East Germany, denied that there had been any such orders. “There was no order to kill, or as they call it, an order to shoot to kill,” he said in an interview to be published Monday in Bild Zeitung, a mass-circulation daily newspaper. “I don’t know this from files. I know this from my own experience. Such an order would have contradicted East German law.”Mr. Krenz served four years of a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for manslaughter related to deaths of East Germans trying to cross the Berlin Wall.