Soviets shoot at car from West Berlin on the motorway Berlin-Helmstedt
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Soviets shoot at car from West Berlin on the motorway Berlin-Helmstedt

Caption

A VW delivery van with bullet holes in West Berlin on the 27th of December in 1953. Soviet soldiers had fired at it on the interzonal motorway Berlin-Helmstedt without any apparent reason.
Five bullets hit the area of the driver's seat of Adalbert Wiozniak's van, who was on his way on the motorway with wife Ida and son Joachim. The sixteen-year-old son was killed, the wife was injured.

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Date

Dec 27, 1953

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Photo12/dpa-pa

Reference

DPA13A05_223

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