German Border Toll 568, Rights Group Says
<i> Associated Press</i>
BERLIN —
The number of people killed along the borders of Communist East Germany was far higher than previously believed, a human rights group said Tuesday.
The August 13th Working Group put the death toll from 1949 until reunification at 568--including 31 children and teen-agers. Most were East Germans trying to escape at the Berlin Wall or along the frontier with West Germany. Bonn officials said four years ago that about 200 people died in escape attempts.
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