Schießbefehl

thumb|275px|Three Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic|Border Troops guards in a [[watch tower on the Inner German border in 1984]]

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Instance of: military order
Country: German Democratic Republic
Image: Schiessbefehl 03.jpg

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Commons category: Schießbefehl
start time: 1961-10-01
end time: 1989-04-03
has effect: people killed at the Berlin Wall

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Prescribed procedure
At the Berlin Wall
Deaths
Reunification
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thumb|275px|Three Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic|Border Troops guards in a [[watch tower on the Inner German border in 1984]]

'''' (; German for "order to fire", ) was the term in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for standing orders authorizing the use of lethal force by the Border Troops to prevent (defection) at the Inner German border from 1960 to 1989.

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