How many people died trying to jump the berlin wall?
235 deaths compared to the significantly lower number of 78 according to the Salzgitter registry.The Checkpoint Charlie Museum gives the number at 245 deaths, though this includes suicides by border guards and bodies found in the water even when there was no obvious link to them being an escapee. They also state that the first person to die at the Wall was in fact an East German officer who committed suicide.