the news live from berlin you can always find the latest headlines at d.w. dot com or follow us on twitter at deed of union. all of these people lost their lives at the berlin wall. christopher lloyd 5th of february 1909.

the stuff on visas and on that must have been stefan han caught in chris's mother was informed that chris had been shot we were stunned it was inconceivable to us we were all so young 192021 we didn't think that this kind of thing was still possible in 1989 and 7 r.t. hostile to snitch maneuvers. in. places prisoners can and me chris really like going to the scene i can imagine that when you're young and you're standing so close to the water that you're able to give your dreams a lot more room to wander on. and that the sun has

enough of it out when he saw pictures of america or heard any kind of coverage about america then he always said he wanted to go there and see this incredibly vast country he started saying that when he was only 12 he felt that there was so much diversity over there which just wasn't the case in small confined east germany . felt so i think he was 14 or 15 when he repeated this feeling and i told him that i didn't think he would be able to do that because he wouldn't be able to get out of east germany he said it out that closet and human sat shocked him and he replied by the time i'm grown up everything may have changed he still hoped at that age that the system could change and that he'd have more freedom as an adult of oxnard as one but for fi as i had come.

with all of us will send us of the him school fetishist i don't think he was aware that he was putting his life in danger at best he knew that it was dangerous because he could have been arrested as a thought sort of man enough to enter and hung up on justice. a couple of hours away with a learning fall and fall on the body was so pumped with adrenaline that you weren't scared about scared to the extent that we considered the outcome that then actually occurred here because all the things. you can see house are we just thought ok if they catch us they'll arrest us and we'll be put in jail for a year which will all be quite harmless but neither the jail nor the stories outcome were harmless enough for almost all felt in the interest of those. in the m. or the 4 i spent 14 years living in the vicinity of the wall funnily enough i was

unable to sleep although i was tired. as these fans who must have been half past 11 at night when i heard the shots. it was a feeling there were lots of shots and it made me flinch but then i went back to. bed and try to forget about it. don't think it's. shitty to think. the next day i heard the 1st news announcements to the meeting that. it is and was shocked and horrified but at that time i had no idea that my own son had been the victim. this is doing this on a quiet. 5th

of february 1909 midnight a message from mr milkha prevention of an attack on the border to west berlin the border guards of regiment 33 fired 22 warning shots and shots on target. was when the call from. chris had been hit we stopped moving outwards and he's going to be provoked and flew close and we weren't trying to escape any more at that moment i was hit by a bullet. i didn't know he would be found in the mom was not so i wasn't really that aware of it soon a few years later i felt that i'd been hit but i didn't feel any pain when on the phone. donna was ugandan friends i mean clan the border guards surrounded us with their weapons drawn the sun looking tires on them and puts on the off and.

they threw us into a ditch until some cars arrived and in gone the old. soul but hell to school. 6th of february 989415 am one of the injured men has died the actions taken by the border police have been evaluated as being proper and decisive the names of the individuals who attempted to cross the border are to be struck from the hospital admissions register. of course other fisherman. chris always had a smile on his face he was by vicious and determined when he wanted to do something he wanted to do it he was very emotional unquestioning c.-r.

it much in our market or and on and on and on and on and on for he didn't just put up with things the way they were at the hardness myths that being so if we if he thought they should stop he spoke his mind and asked many questions or so on and on and on feel. and chris was very restless and i never knew what he did with all his energy and he was a noisy baby and very spirited he had a real thirst for knowledge he was very demanding there was one instance in school where chris was in trouble because he'd beaten someone up often national gets out of axis but he did that quite

a few times in years one and 2 before he went to the sport school want to take on the business angle and it's coming i got a call so i went to the school when i got there i told him that i didn't want him fighting with the boys he was that he told me he had to do it on one of the boys was fat and wore thick glasses and i think i was at that at a concert ticket and everyone was laughing at him so that this boy was crying. that it would be and chris beat up the boys who were locked in that he liked doing that he was a wild child. point of the gun. our friendship began straight away and. year one begun and that's when we started doing gymnastics together in school he was also from the yana style district. i mean the one he was the only one who lived in the same district as me so we had the same grade school we got on well together awesome for

them. it was frequent it's was on the. or we knew we'd go to boarding school together we were fans of dynamo berlin they had a great journalists they were number one in east germany so that was a goal for us and we were really proud. of the martial arts and i mean on. the woman i remember the sports bags we got with the 1st badges saying dynamo on them. that was what i want to focus on things that how should i do when we were out and berlin with this bag we thought that other people would see that and think that we were great gymnast's that or and that phones are few but i although that was our

goal for 3 years we were serious about it being a top class gymnast could change your whole life. up in one by a minute gets into an all black. face but there's a hunger for it and know how as a come i remember him coming home at the weekend it was unbelievable his hands were so sore he had blisters and the skin was peeling off. he always took a bath and cut off the blistering skin and we tried to patch him up at the weekends funnily enough the children thought that was normal they didn't feel they were being put under too much pressure there were only a few times after he'd been shouted at to do it again that he put his foot down and said no i don't want you anymore it's no fun like this if we're looking at an.

interest because i made the decision to take chris out of the sports school because i knew he'd never become a world champion i told chris it was more likely that they'd break his back than that he'd get on to the podium stuffs but that was so i said he was too stubborn to make it he didn't want to hear it. i think it took 2 or 3 months and then he said to me fine i won't go there anymore but what will i do now cos my kids.

you know. when i'm with give trained waiter chris get friday i remember the 1st day of his internship and chris was standing in the office area that was the area between the kitchen then the guest room and crucial and. that's the all in the name on through he stood there in his suit as if he'd been wearing it day and night for years with guns and he was confident elegant and quick as he did his job. it was very impressive chris and i were both very happy about this job because in the days of east germany becoming a trained waiter was a privilege that guns guns the chanst and if talk to do the outside and more with privy to get this as a mission it wasn't a highly regarded job but you had the chance to earn a lot of money even as

a young person and vaio and x. all the time and. dickless had called it an oddball of whites if you give us the congress work in a bar that had many visitors from the west there were tourists for them these german money wasn't worth much so they gave a lot of tips if you can get it so if you know us all sponsor and. in many restaurants it was an advantage if you could win over guests to be your allies they were quite liberal with the east german money that they exchanged $10.00 to $1.00 of them seemed so and skipped almost. all scandal for its local mcdonald's and that's how you could easily earn a few 100 marks a day. i'm talking probably not more from the.

scopes room obvious height but you know there were evenings when we went for a walk in berlin sometimes we'd walk through the central district and that always made us pensive because we could see the wall of wisconsin. on compared to not it was right there in crisp oak very much about how he perceived the system out of the if you pull him out of a bush one he also talked about how he couldn't serve in the national people's army because he didn't want a political career void we had lots in common wouldn't gotten high commands on patton and he's on the only 4th us the 4 i was i asked him what his plan was and i didn't want to get him to confess that he had plans to flee or anything like that he sort of stared into the distance and said i can't say that right now but things can't stay the same. he said occurred to me on my visit chris said the same thing to me once why don't we leave i told him why should we leave you i have everything i need here i have a job i have a flat he shouted at me there must be more to life than that a small bank account

a flat a job that's not enough help i suppose or so there's a sort. of course on. i had no real idea about how he felt i could have kept a much closer eye on him had i known but i didn't. push ups that just. 7th of february $989.00 police headquarters. operation turner is being initiated to monitor a car and get those environs as well as to prevent information getting through to the western press it is therefore been decided to summon giffords mother for the purpose of intimidation. the same of the sped that i'm coming went by and 10 minutes later someone came in a relatively tall man in a blue uniform highly decorated he introduced himself with i forget his rank but i

think his surname was true so he told me without hesitation mrs gaffer i we would like to inform you that your son committed an attack on a military object and has died do you need a doctor if that's when everything changed that would suck then i guess when. i started screaming and really lost the plot they got such a fright because they weren't expecting that reaction i kept screaming you murdered him he was only 20 he didn't do anything i was so powerless i was completely in their hands there was nothing i could do but they did this to my child and all i could do was scream in silence i couldn't run through the streets screaming they'd have stuck me in a mental hospital straight away i think i had this sense of helplessness for a good 6 weeks or 6. it was not we knew that cotton had been threatened if we tried

to support her and be there for her we wanted to hear her stories that she had terrible things to say about what had happened to her and how the authorities had treated her with you but the east german papers announced that there hadn't been an order to shoot so that nobody had been shot but we knew he'd been shot and still it was denied we immediately knew that the state wanted to shut us up and sweep this whole affair under the carpet they didn't want anybody to know that someone had been shot at the wall it doesn't run into the scandal into does the madonna marshals warn us. the 24th of february 989 police headquarters kibo stossel. for his funeral must be prepared with the goal of preventing anybody from abusing the ceremony to commit provocative actions against the state leadership extensive security measures around current governor i have not been able to prevent the leaking of conspiratorial information from going for a social circle to western newspapers.

while still a protest him or her the mood so hard on them is not what i thought it was a silent protest to have the courage and say we have to put a notice of his death in the papers it was denied that anybody had been shot down the system refused to acknowledge it so we did it and we went in there stuck together in this and it's the us concessions nightfall we thought we could only say it was a tragic accident and we wanted to give the day it was a small protest that would test us one that has put a splat. on it was not on we knew that efforts had been made for the media to attend the funeral that was the small contribution we were able to make and that's when i talk .

i don't buy the full. body and dust in the bottle while we were under constant surveillance at the funeral everywhere. officers were stationed in the cemetery side alleys and by the graves as east german citizens we knew that things like that went on but we've not been affected personally for those of my posts yet or on longer to leave you there while the couple of the mavs cognition you know we always perceived it to be tragic. the system hammered into us that this was the border between 2 fundamentally different systems and the border was hostile to us so people who did what chris did could end up the way chris ended up all. you know went. on this policy of it was dreadful this slime on the inception when he saw these a possessed 8 presence was the final straw i knew i couldn't live in this place. it

was a police state a dictatorship as i'm pretty tight does this not picked up well. the 24th of february 1989 it is further ordered that the political damage must be contained by all available means use of an informer against the young adults and disciplining of christopher his mother. sometimes i was at the police station for 6 or 7 hours i had lost all sense of time the only way i knew how much time had passed was from the clock on the town hall and i couldn't even remember properly what they'd asked and what i'd said they just wouldn't stop talking to his kind of whom they hadn't have all the more we go for along the gulf because they said we were brought in for questioning several times they came to my home to question me some more they followed me around for 3 weeks

they came to the funeral and then always stood outside the shop but the 2 gentlemen sat inside there when i left the house in the morning they followed me on day 3 i started saying good morning to them and then. they said good morning back. out of the homes he thought they didn't try and hide it was very open it followed me home again. they followed me wherever i went like that i was just starting up the career ladder and had a leading position what others like. playing in austin and the like don't put it was made very clear to me that it didn't matter how the situation ended my career was over the only job i'd ever get in my life was a stagehand as you know but on. an island and the father in then i remember one trip i took in

a tram it was packed full with boys with rucksacks and suitcases they were all very jolly there was something in each one of their faces that reminded me of chris i started crying i couldn't control myself i wanted to but i couldn't and the whole tram went quiet as i stood there wondering what i was going to do to what they saw because that's why it's only had been i couldn't explain just. chris was dead i was embarrassed mr said it was tough so i wasn't allowed to say in this state what had happened and that was very painful as i got out and felt numb. ohs tart. things and i asked myself what i was doing in a country like that i went to the police station and got myself together and decided i will talk with us and that was the day they told me that their

investigations were completed and that the state had acted properly and that i should never say again that he had been murdered. one of them added you yourself said chris was like a little wild horse what do you do with wild horses if they don't let you catch them i looked at him and said you just shoot them he nodded that's when i woke up and knew that i had to leave i couldn't breathe anymore i didn't want to live there any longer like kind of he and really i thought. she was up until then she didn't know about her son's death but special commission informed her that her son committed an attack on a military object carrying get froyo would be questioned here for weeks. this until you were not. only they're young they never experienced the wall they were born a lot later their parents often don't tell them much. many of them come from

southern germany and sweden they just want to know about chris and me and about east germany what is it like to live in a dictatorship how do you behave. i think it's great that i'm allowed to do this and that i'm invited to tell my stories here and kind of. light up and he says sometimes i'm surprised myself that i've managed this it has worked i always remember chris's words about how there had to be more to life you

can always make a fresh start and i know now that he was right you can make a fresh start with kindness. but.

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