The 16-year-old Wolf-Olaf Muszynski is recovered dead by West Berlin police, 1 April 1963 (Photo: Polizeihistorische Sammlung/Der Polizeipräsident in Berlin)
In West Germany, the television network “Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen” (ZDF) starts broadcasts.
17 April
1963
A 19-year-old civil employee of the National People’s Army, Wolfgang Engels, tries to break through the Berlin border between Treptow and Neukölln in a stolen Soviet armoured personnel carrier, but becomes stuck in the Wall.more