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The Berlin border crossings were border crossings created as a result of the post-World War II division of Germany. Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, travel between the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin was completely uncontrolled, although restrictions were increasingly introduced by the Soviet and East German ...
River traffic was hugely important to the survival of West Berlin, conveying around five million tons of cargo a year to the city, but was subjected to numerous inspections and petty restrictions by the East German authorities. [8] Rail traffic was excruciatingly slow; locomotives and train crews had to be changed at the border, the East German ...
The inner German border originated from the Second World War Allies' plans to divide a defeated Germany into occupation zones. [7] The boundaries between these zones were drawn along the territorial boundaries of 19th-century German states and provinces that had largely disappeared with the unification of Germany in 1871. [8]
Hundreds of thousands of East Germans found an escape route across the border of East Germany's erstwhile ally, Hungary.The inner German border's integrity relied ultimately on other Warsaw Pact states fortifying their own borders and being willing to shoot escapees, including East Germans, around fifty of whom were shot on the borders of Polish People's Republic, Czechoslovak Socialist ...
Czech Republic–Germany border crossings (20 P) D. Denmark–Germany border crossings (8 P) F. France–Germany border crossings (7 P) L.
Most countries closed their borders, at least partially, at some point last year. But the world is starting to reopen COVID Border Accountability Project, CC BY-SATrips canceled: 2.93 billion ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country's land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the ...
Open The Wall (2014), featuring a dramatized story of the East-German border guard who was the first to let East Berliners cross the border to West Berlin on 9 November 1989. Bridge of Spies (2015), featuring a dramatized subplot about Frederic Pryor , in which an American economics graduate student visits his German girlfriend in East Berlin ...