The former Vice Defense Minister of the GDR, Fritz Streletz, is dead. The former Colonel General died on Monday at the age of 98 after a long, serious illness in a care facility in Oranienburg (Brandenburg), as the Eulenspiegel-Verlag announced, citing the family. The “Berliner Zeitung” had previously reported.
Streletz, born in today’s Poland (then Upper Silesia), had been sentenced to a manslaughter of GDR refugees after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but only had to serve a part in prison. He saw himself as innocent, he had denied a shooting command on the wall.
Streletz had made a career after the Second World War and Soviet captivity in the GDR people. In 1971 he was appointed the secretary of the National Defense Council of the GDR, later he became deputy of Defense Minister Heinz Kessler.
Together with his former boss, Streletz had released the book “Without the Wall there would have been war”. In it he defended the wall construction as necessary and correct.
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