3 Go on Trial in Berlin Wall Killings
Three former members of East Germany’s ruling Politburo went on trial for manslaughter for ordering the killings of people trying to flee the now defunct Communist state. The trial of Herbert Haeber, Hans-Joachim Boehme and Siegfried Lorenz is expected to be the last such bid by German authorities to take the regime’s leaders to task for the hundreds of deaths during the Berlin Wall’s 28-year existence. Prosecutors in the trial have chosen four sample killings spanning 1984 to 1989, including that of the last victim of the shoot-to-kill policy.
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