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Border, West, East

Death at a border crossing

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Within the space of just a few weeks, two people die of heart failure during border checks as they drive the road between West Germany and West Berlin. One of them is 45-year-old Rudolf Burkert from Bremen, who is on his way to watch a boxing match in West Berlin with a friend. When he is stopped and questioned at Checkpoint Bravo, Burkert suffers a heart attack and dies.

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  • Grenzübergang Drewitz
    showtime
    19
    latitude
    52.416505
    longitude
    13.197417
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