East German duo convicted for Wall deaths
Two former members politburo that ruled communist East Germany were placed on probation today for failing to prevent shooting deaths at the Berlin Wall in the 1980s.
In what was likely to be the last trial of its kind, the Berlin state court convicted Hans-Joachim Boehme, aged 74, and Siegfried Lorenz, aged 73, of being accessories to murder in three deaths at the wall in 1986-89.
