Article: Hans Conrad Schuhmann Former East German soldier

Hans Conrad Schuhmann, a former East German soldier immortalized in a photograph as he leaped across a barbed-wire fence to freedom in West Berlin, hanged himself Saturday. He was 56.

Schuhmann left no note.

Schuhmann was serving in an East German unit assigned to stop people ...

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