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Two young men from East Berlin become the first to be killed while trying to cross The Berlin Wall from East to West Germany, Europe. During the history of the Berlin Wall (1961 to 1989), nearly 80 people will be killed trying to escape. The song In Memory Of The Martyrs by Barclay James Harvest is about the sacrifice made by those people.
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