The Soviets had no intention of letting Germany reunify as a neutral or later pro-Western state and began to close the border down. It was de facto closed off in 1952 and formally sealed off in 1961 to stop the mass exodus of East Germans to West Germany. Between October 1945 and June 1946, 1.6 million Germans left the Soviet zone for the West; and another 675,000 people fled to West Germany between 1949 and 1952.
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| - Inner German border
- Inner German Border
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| - The Soviets had no intention of letting Germany reunify as a neutral or later pro-Western state and began to close the border down. It was de facto closed off in 1952 and formally sealed off in 1961 to stop the mass exodus of East Germans to West Germany. Between October 1945 and June 1946, 1.6 million Germans left the Soviet zone for the West; and another 675,000 people fled to West Germany between 1949 and 1952.
- The Inner German border ( or deutsch–deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the frontier between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990. Not including the similar but physically separate Berlin Wall, the border was long and ran from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia.
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| Garrison
| - British Army
- US Army
- Stasi
- Bayerische Grenzpolizei
- British Frontier Service
- Bundeszollverwaltung
- East:
National People's Army
- Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
- Volkspolizei
- West:
Bundesgrenzschutz
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| Name
| - Inner German border
- Innerdeutsche Grenze
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| Type
| - Border fortification system
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| - 1960.0
- 1970.0
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- --12-04
- -1980.0
- United States Army personnel meet with Bundesgrenzschutz officers, 1979.
- East German border guards near Mackenrode, Thuringia, walking past a propaganda caricature of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
- The East German view: the border depicted as a defensive line against military aggression from NATO.
- High-speed GDR river patrol boat, equipped with searchlights to detect escapees
- Border Reconnaissance soldier, 1979
- Border installations at Schlagsdorf.
- The West German view: "Germany does not end here! The Fatherland is over there too!"
- Roll of East German propaganda leaflets in a canister which was fired across the border during the "leaflet war" between East and West Germany
- West German memorial to Helmut Kleinert, shot dead on the border on 1 August 1963. His death was memorialised by the German Federation of Trade Unions.
- Vehicles queuing at the East German passport control at the Marienborn crossing point, December 1989
- Deutsche Grenzpolizei patrol boat off the East German island of Rügen, December 1955
- Border Troops of the GDR guarding border maintenance workers in 1979. The workers would be shot if they crossed the red "cord of death" in the foreground.
- Memorial to "the victims of inhumanity" at Rüterberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Armed GDR border police patrolling a beach on the island of Rügen, 1956
- East German memorial to border guard Waldemar Estel, who was shot on the border on 3 September 1956. The GDR blamed "imperialist agents" for his death.
- Boot modified with a hooked overshoe to enable the wearer to climb the fences
- The West German crossing facility at Herleshausen in 1985, looking west along Bundesautobahn 4
- View of border-related exhibits at the Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund in Thuringia
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- 128(xsd:integer)
- 150(xsd:integer)
- 154(xsd:integer)
- 167(xsd:integer)
- 200(xsd:integer)
- 208(xsd:integer)
- 210(xsd:integer)
- 212(xsd:integer)
- 220(xsd:integer)
- 240(xsd:integer)
- 244(xsd:integer)
- 248(xsd:integer)
- 290(xsd:integer)
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| Condition
| - Mostly demolished, some parts preserved for historic record.
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| - 9000.0
- 718.0
- View of two lines of vehicles passing between two buildings, with four passport control booths visible, under a corrugated metal roof. A long line of vehicles stretches into the distance below towers ringed with searchlights.
- Aerial view of a four-lane motorway crossing green fields, with a small village with a church spire in the distance to the left of the motorway. In the foreground, there is a white roof structure, resting on slim white pillars, across all four lanes of the motorway; to the left, the roof also extends over a slip lane which branches off from the main road and then rejoins it; on the right, just before the roof structure, there is a parking lot with diagonally parked orange and brown lorries.
- Two metal canisters resting on a glass shelf with a roll of papers, on which a question mark is visible, in between them. A two-euro coin is positioned to the left to provide a scale.
- A large number of people of various ages standing and walking along a road in front of a high concrete wall, behind which houses and a church are visible in a wooded valley.
- View of a small village with houses and a church, located in a wooded valley, with a river in the foreground. A high concrete wall separates the village from the river.
- Two armed East German soldiers, seen through a barbed-wire fence, walking from right to left through a grassy hilly landscape towards a clump of young trees. Behind them is a very large propaganda sign showing a caricature of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer clutching a missile while standing on a ladder being propped up by a military officer. The rungs of the ladder are made from the acronym "NATO". The sign is captioned: "Wer hoch hinaus will, fällt tief!"
- Boulder carved with the words "Für die Opfer der Unmenschlichkeit". In the background are a section of border fence and a yellow sign showing a kneeling soldier taking aim with a rifle.
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