1899 victims - new number of casualties of the border regime of the Soviet occupation zone / GDR / Socialist Unity Party of Germany

At our press conference on 13 August 1989 we spoke of 191 casualties of the GDR border regime. In August of last year a total number of 1,841 casualties was announced. Unfortunately, during the research year 2016 - 2017 we found another 58 border casualties to report.