This memorial site commemorates the victims of gunfire and barbed wire at the Berlin Wall and is named after Günter Litfin, the first victim of precision shooting at the Wall.
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His tragic death converted Peter Fechter into a symbol. He was shot in 1962 when trying to climb across the Wall.
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The white crosses are commemorating those who lost their lives trying to overcome the GDR border fortifications to escape from East Germany.
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Brandenburg Gate Museum shows - virtually in fast motion - more than 300 years of the history in Berlin in a 20-minute multimedia presentation, very close to the Brandenburg Gate directly at Pariser Platz.