Original: Chris Gueffroy ( June 21 , 1968 , Pasewalk , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & ndash ; February 6 , 1989 ) was the last person to be shot while trying to escape to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall .
Simplified: Gueffroy and his friend Christian Gaudian tried to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin on the night of February 5 to February 6 , 1989 .