The Red Scare

The first person that was killed, we mentioned, you know, how many people did you say confirmed 136? The first one was Gunter Litwin, Litvin. He tried to swim over a canal and was shot. But the big one was Peter Fechter. 1962, he was shot in the back climbing the wall. And he was just a boy, maybe 1920? Yeah, he was 19. It's crazy when you think about it. Living in the Democratic Republic of Germany. Was a really drab, dreary, hard existence.