1955 Press Photo Bullet riddled truck shot up by Russians to stop refugees

29-12-53. Russian shoot mother and son... Family travelling from East to West Berlin.. Russian troops on Sunday night killed Joachin Wozniak (16) and seriously wounded his mother in the night. They fired on the can in which the family was travelling from the Autobahn checkpoint at Babelsburg in the East Zone to West Berlin. The shooting occurred 50 yeards from the West Berlin Police post on the inter-sector frontier. West Berlin police, to whom the father ran for assistance, were not permitted by the Russian to cross the frontier to give medical help. People's police later allowed Wozniak to drive the vehicle back to their post at Babelsburg. No medical help was available there. After further delay, he was permitted to drive the vehicle into West Berlin. BY this time his son had died and his wife was seriously ill from loss of blood. The West Berlin murder squad are investigating the incident. Keystone Photo Shows:- The bullet ridden truck - after the shooting incident.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 12-29-1955.



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