Grenzdokumentationsstätte Schlutup - Museum Former GDR border

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Grenzdokumentationsstätte Schlutup - Museum Former GDR border
Small border museum very close to Lübeck.

01.07.1953 - 19.08.1974
Hans-Georg Lemme 
Unweit dieser Stelle wurde am späten Abend des 19. August 1974 der'21jährige Hans-Georg Lemme aus Groß Breese beim Versuch, die Elbe zu durchschwimmen, um in die Bundesrepublik zu fliehen, getötet. Nachdem ein Patrouillenboot der DDR-Grenztruppen auf den Flüchtling aufmerksam geworden war und in nicht zur Umkehr bewegen konnte, fuhren die DDR-Grenzer mit ihrem Boot über den Flüchtling. Dabei wurde Lemme durch die Schiffsschraube tödlich verletzt. Sein Leichnam wurde erst nach einigen Tagen in der Elbe treibend entdeckt. Die sterblichen Überreste des jungen Mannes ruhen auf dem Dorffriedhof in Groß Breese. Die an der Tat beteiligten DDR-Grenzer gingen nach dem Mauerfall straffrei aus. Das Landgericht in Schwerin vermochte die Tötungsabsicht des Kapitäns nicht nachzuweisen. 

Close to this place the 21-year-old Hans-Georg Lemme from Gross Breese was killed by GDR border troops on August 19, 1974 right here in the river. 
He had tried to flee to West Germany by swimming across the Elbe in the late evening. However, a patrol boat of the GDR border troops noticed the escapee and pursued him. The East German border guards did not lift him out of the water, buat instead drove right over him. Lemme was fatally injured by the propeller of their their boat. His body was discovered floating in the river Elbe a few days later. The remains of the young man were put to rest in the village cemetery of Gross Breese. The East German border. guards responsible for his death were tried by the district court in Schwerin atfer the Wall had collapsed. They were acquitted as their intention to kill could not be proven.

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