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Michael Gartenschläger Memorial

Michael Gartenschläger Memorial

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Michael Gartenschläger Memorial

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Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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JR56

July 30, 2020

At midnight between April 30 and May 1, 1976, Michael Gartenschläger was killed by East German border guards. He is shot by a Stasi special command when he tries to approach the border to the west.
Gartenschläger has carefully planned its action on the Schwarzenbek border in Lauenburg. The GDR Foreign Minister, Oskar Fischer, denies that there are self-shot systems on the border. Gartenschläger wants to prove that this is a lie. In March and April he crawled to the border and dismantled two of the SM70 self-firing systems. He shows this to the magazine Der Spiegel and in this way the fraud of the GDR leadership was exposed.
When gardeners know that a new SM70 has been installed, he sneaks back to the border on the evening of April 30th. Together with two helpers, he wants to fetch one of the new self-shot systems that are to be exhibited in West Germany. But he does not know that the East German border police got a tip. A special command of the Ministry of State Security can therefore take up posts. They are ready to shoot garden bats, which is now a thorn in the side of the GDR government.

In the following years Michael Gartenschläger became a symbol of the inhumanity of the GDR. Shortly afterwards, a cross was erected in the village of Bröthen: the garden bat cross. Today there is a monument.

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JR56

July 30, 2020

A very impressive memorial and memorial, where you should linger for a moment, think about it and make an active contribution in the future so that such terrible events are finally a thing of the past.

Michael Gartenschläger approached the GDR border fence in order to dismantle one of the dangerous SM-70 splinter mines from the metal fence of the barrier systems. After he had twice succeeded in dismantling the murder devices denied by the GDR and presenting them as evidence to the western public, the third attempt ended fatally - Michael Gartenschläger was shot by snipers from the State Security Service, born on January 13, 1944 in Berlin
Shot on April 30, 1976
Incident location: near border pillar 231, near Bröthen (Schleswig-Holstein)
More detailed information:

fu-berlin.de/sites/fsed/Das-DDR-Grenzregime/Biografien-von-Todesopfern/Gartenschlaeger_Michael/index.html

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Cooli

July 25, 2021

Kolonnenweg - also known as the death strip

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