For many decades, the country was divided into two: East and West Germany. The two were separated through an impassable border named the Iron Curtain. East Germany, known officially as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was formed in …

08/06/2017 · A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Most were civilians trying to …

02/10/2020 · Thirty years after the border between East and West Germany ceased to exist by the stroke of a pen on Oct. 3, 1990, it remains one of the most important psychological dividers in …

28/02/2018 · Poland-Germany Border . Germany’s bordering country to the east is Poland. The border between the two countries stretches 290 miles. An estimated one million people live in regions found on both sides of the border. The border starts from the Czech Republic and moves north until it ends at the Baltic Sea.

03/08/2011 · intra-German border has been sealed with barbed wire since 1952; checkpoints are strictly monitored. East German border police have also closed off the border surrounding Berlin. The border within the city, by con-trast, though monitored, is not fully sealed thanks to the shared responsibility of all four Allied powers for Berlin. Several

01/10/2010 · Photos show the Inner German border, then and now Nearly 30 years ago, a hobby photographer set out to photograph the entire border between East and West Germany.

02/10/2020 · While the border zone in West Germany was easily accessible, this was not the case in East Germany. Hardly anyone was allowed into what the GDR had made a forbidden zone. Inhabitants of villages at the border were allowed to be there, but they could not receive any visitors from other parts of the country. Border guards showed up a lot.

04/07/2008 · East German fugitives imagined the border as a no-man's land in the mountains. Anyone arriving in Novo Godshovo, a village near the spot where Weber died, could easily imagine that that was indeed ...