Because of these shortcomings, he assessed the list as an ``extensive record of suspected cases'' that ``failed to set up a scientifically verifiable standard''. Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit commented on the dispute with the words ``Every single dead was one too many.'' In 2009, Hildebrandt reported of 245 dead caused by the Wall. According to her research, the first Wall victim was a suicidal GDR officer and not Ida Siekmann, as Hildebrandt also included border guards that committed suicide and cold cases of bodies found in boundary waters in her list.
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