Information on Incident Involving Representatives of the UK Mission in the Kleinmachnow Area, 10-11 March 196212 Mar 1962 |
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Description:
This report describes an incident during the night of 10-11 March 1962, when border guards in Kleinmachnow near Potsdam fired on a vehicle belonging to the British Military Liaison Mission. According to the information offered here, the vehicle had not been previously recognized as belonging to the British Mission, the driver of the vehicle was severely injured, and the East German border guards acted correctly and in line with their instructions.
Collection: Western Military Missions
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Document Type:
Report Language of Original Document: German Number of Pages: 3 Cold War Period: 1960s |
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Document Source: Federal Commissioner for the Records of the National Security Service of the Former Democratic Republic (BStU), Berlin Call Number: MfS Z 555, Bl. 5-7 |