In the evening at around 9.50 p.m., the 28-year-old Johannes Lange is shot dead while trying to escape at the sector border between the Berlin districts Mitte and Kreuzberg. The shots are heard in the Western sector, but the name of the dead man remains unknown at first.
RIAS commentary on the shooting of a would-be escapee at the Wall (Johannes Lange), 10 April 1969 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: RIAS-Aktuell/Rundschau am Abend, Kommentar: Friedrich Noppert)
At the Hanover Trade Fair, a deal on gas pipes is engineered between West Germany and the Soviet Union. As a result, West Germany becomes the Soviet Union’s most important Western trading partner.
