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Germany reintroduced temporary controls on its western and northern borders on Monday as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime, the interior ministry said.
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 ]
Currently the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling first, after earlier this month it became the first far-right party since World War Two to win a state election, in Thuringia.
Border control comprises measures taken by governments to monitor [1] and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders.While border control is typically associated with international borders, it also encompasses controls imposed on internal borders within a single state.
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 ...
Until now, the southern state of Bavaria on the Austrian border was the only part of Germany with stationary border controls, a legacy of the 2015-2016 migration crisis when Europe’s leading ...
A phantom border (German: Phantomgrenze) is an informal delineation following the approximate course of an abolished political border, associated with demographic differences on each side as a continuing legacy of historical division, despite official geopolitical union. [1] Not all former political borders are today phantom borders.
In August, registered illegal border crossings to Germany reached 14,701, up 66% on the same month last year, police data show. BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will introduce new border controls with ...