Erschossen und vergessen: DDR-Grenzopfer in Bulgarien

SHOTLIST BRASHTEN, BULGARIEN23. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV1. Aufwärts-Einstellung a villager drags a mule outside the Bulgarian village of Brashten on the southern border with Greece BRASHTEN, BULGARIEN22. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV2. Nah a hill overlooking the Bulgarian village of Brashten, across which lies the southern border with Greece 3. Halbnahe villager Shehim Solakov, 82, looks towards the hill overlooking the Bulgarian village of Brashten, across which lies the southern border with Greece 4. O-TON 1 - Shehim Solakov, villager from Brashten (mann, 82 Jahre alt, Bulgarian, 20 Sek.): 'They were running away. They wanted to go from the German Democratic Republic to West Germany. But (border) control was very strict over there, they thought it would be easier here in Bulgaria. And so they came here but were caught.'BRASHTEN, BULGARIEN23. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV5. Schärfeziehen a monument to the border army heroes in the courtyard of deserted border army barracks on the outskirts of the village of Brashten 6. Totale deserted border army barracks seen behind a fence on the outskirts of the village of Brashten BRASHTEN, BULGARIEN22. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV7. Halbnahe fields at the foot of a hill overlooking the Bulgarian village of Brashten, across which lies the southern border with Greece KJUSTENDIL, BULGARIEN24. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV8. Totale Metody Slishkov, 75, shows pictures from the time he served at Bulgaria's southern border during the Iron Curtain era 9. Nah picture of various awards that Metody Slishkov, 75, received for his service at Bulgaria's southern border during the Iron Curtain era 10. O-TON 2 - Metody Slishkov, former sergeant in the border army during the Iron Curtain era (mann, 75 Jahre alt, Bulgarian, 11 Sek.): 'When I would see that the border itself was just steps away, I was obliged to shoot, that was the instruction.'11. Totale Metody Slishkov, 75, shows pictures from the time he served at Bulgaria's southern border during the Iron Curtain era 12. Totale Metody Slishkov, 75, shows pictures from the time he served at Bulgaria's southern border during the Iron Curtain era BRASHTEN, BULGARIEN23. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV13. Halbnahe barbed wire lying in a field on the outskirts of the Bulgarian village of Brashten 14. Aufwärts-Einstellung rows of barbed wire lying in a field on the outskirts of the Bulgarian village of Brashten BRASHTEN, BULGARIEN22. MÄRZ 2019QUELLE: AFPTV15. Nah people ploughing a patch of land on the outskirts of the Bulgarian village of Brashten near the border with Greece