It wasn't though. The murder of people trying to escape the GDR was in fact illegal even by the laws of the GDR.
Oh please....then why did it happen again and again with the killers getting rewarded? Ever heard of the "Schießbefehl"???
§ 27 des Grenzgesetzes von 1982
The GDR's "shoot-to-kill" order was an order to border guards to use firearms to secure the border and arrest or kill refugees in the event of attempted escape. Officially, the GDR denied the existence of the shoot-to-kill order, but it became a reality through laws (such as the 1982 Border Law), orders, rewards for killed refugees, and ideological influence on soldiers....
verfassungen.de/ddr/staatsgrenze82.htm
[quote....](2) Die Anwendung der Schußwaffe ist gerechtfertigt, um die unmittelbar bevorstehende Ausführung oder die Fortsetzung einer Straftat zu verhindern, die sich den Umständen nach als ein Verbrechen darstellt. Sie ist auch gerechtfertigt zur Ergreifung von Personen, die eines Verbrechens dringend verdächtig sind....[/quote]
Meaning everybody declared an "enemy of the state" by the gov in East-Berlin....it was easy to become a criminal, wanting to leave was already a crime!
Stop the BS, Tacitus! I don't take THAT one lightly... the last victim, Chris Gueffroy was killed near my 'hood....I could practically hear the shots!
The murderer and their superiors and the responsible gov politicians got only problems AFTER they lost....
Look at the wording Tacitus...it sounds so clear and nice and upstanding....could stand like that also in the german Verfassung, right?