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A 2017 study by the Free University of Berlin recorded 24 border guards being killed: nine were shot by people fleeing East Germany, eight in "friendly fire" incidents, three by civilians, three by US patrols and one by a West German border guard. [6] The list of names of the deceased are below.
Pages in category "Germany–Poland border crossings" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;
Three Border Troops guards in a watch tower on the Inner German border in 1984. Schießbefehl (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːsbəˌfeːl] ⓘ; German for "order to fire") was the term in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for standing orders authorizing the use of lethal force by the Border Troops to prevent Republikflucht at the Inner German border from 1960 to 1989.
Contains border crossings from Germany to other countries. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. ... Code of Conduct;
Pages in category "Germany–Switzerland border crossings" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
(The official designation for controlled border traffic was Grenzübergangsstelle, GÜSt: border crossing site.) Border officials and customs agents would monitor incoming and outgoing traffic according to established procedures, at times with the utmost scrutiny. A strict division of labor among the various organizations was the rule.
A person attempting to make an illegal crossing of the inner German border around 1980, travelling from east to west, would first come to the "restricted zone" (Sperrzone). This was a 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) wide area running parallel to the border to which access was heavily restricted.
Download QR code; Print/export ... The Inner German border was the main border between East Germany and West Germany. ... Crossing the inner German border; D.