Hans Conrad Schumann, also known as Konrad Schumann (28 March 1942 – 20 June 1998), was an East German Bereitschaftspolizist who escaped to West Germany during the …

2017年6月16日 · This is a photograph of an East German soldier helping a little boy cross the newly erected Berlin Wall the day it was built. A boy who’d gotten left behind in the chaos of …

2023年3月7日 · Not only did he have severe qualms about having deserted his comrades in the midst of a “combat operation” and having violated his sacred oath, but he also feared for his …

1998年6月23日 · Conrad Schumann, the East German soldier who became a symbol of freedom when he was photographed Aug. 15, 1961, leaping over the tangle of barbed wire that was to …

The Land Forces of the National People's Army [2] (German: Landstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee – LaSK) was the ground-based military branch of the German Democratic …

2016年9月19日 · East Germany initially wanted to portray his defection as a kidnapping, but as publicity mounted behind a uniformed member of the GDR fleeing his own regime, it became …

2017年1月9日 · He was an East German soldier who became famous for defecting to West Germany as the Berlin Wall was being constructed in 1961. On 15 August 1961, Schumann, …

2016年7月20日 · Conrad Schumann was an East German soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.On 15 August 1961, the 19-year …

The National People's Army (German: Nationale Volksarmee, pronounced [natsi̯oˈnaːlə ˈfɔlksʔaʁˌmeː] ⓘ; NVA [ɛn faʊ ˈʔaː] ⓘ) were the armed forces of the German Democratic …

Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier, leaps over a barbed wire barricade to rejoin his family in West Berlin in August 1961. The Guardian