Back along the road where the Red Sector joins the West, the border is all marked by frequent tall manned towers, triple fences with masses of rolled wire in between, plus a space about 100 yards wide cleared out between forests and the fences, and all mined. It would be very hard to get out.
We drove through the backwoods and small German villages to Neustadt, a village right on the far southern tip of the Eastern German border. You can drive along the road to Sonnefeld till the border - fences, mines, towers and all cut across the road. The entire border around all of East German is controlled like this. A whole country locked in with guns, mines and wire. It was a sight we will never forget.
We drove through the backwoods and small German villages to Neustadt, a village right on the far southern tip of the Eastern German border. You can drive along the road to Sonnefeld till the border - fences, mines, towers and all cut across the road. The entire border around all of East German is controlled like this. A whole country locked in with guns, mines and wire. It was a sight we will never forget.
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