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      1965

      On a fine summer's day, while taking a trip in a motor boat, the West Berlin businessman Hermann Döbler and the waitress Elke Märtens enter the territory of the Soviet zone on the Teltow Canal, to the east of the Dreilinden checkpoint. After firing several warning shots, the border guards fire at them: Hermann Döbler is killed, while Elke Märtens receives a nearly fatal shot in the head.
      RIAS report on the killing of the West Berliner Hermann Döbler after he crossed the border to the GDR in his motor boat in the Teltow Canal (with a statement by the Ruling Mayor Willy Brandt), 15 June 1965 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Die Zeit im Funk, Reporter: Gert Hente)
      Hermann Döbler, born on October 28, 1922 shot dead on June 15, 1965 on the Teltow Canal near the Dreilinden border crossing
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