So, where did the guard yell at you? At the Brandenburg crossing (where they were constantly shifting the large concrete barricades around all the time to fool folks who might try the "drive a truck through it" trick) or somewhere along the West Side of the Large Fence that had a mine field on the East Side?
That was several hundred miles long and extended from the Baltic to Austria ~ Hungary's border fence with Austria was not removed until May 1989.
I think I told you I was assigned duty ALONG the American sector in West Germany, not the Russian sector of the GDR.
Like I said there were no "NO MAN'S ZONES" ~ just a fence or wall (in Berlin), a clearly identified and fenced in mine field, and on the Freeworld side a chickenwire fence that marked the furthest you wanted to go if you wanted to avoid getting hit with shrapnel should one of the mines explode.
But if you walked in a park where the Berlin Wall ran, and just climbed under barriers, you are quite lucky you weren't shot.
But if you walked in a park where the Berlin Wall ran, and just climbed under barriers, you are quite lucky you weren't shot.
What the heck do you think I've been saying?
So, where did the guard yell at you? At the Brandenburg crossing
Yes...but it wasn't a crossing at the time...don't ask me what he said, I don't speak German but I got his message!
(where they were constantly shifting the large concrete barricades around all the time to fool folks who might try the "drive a truck through it" trick)
I didn't see the concrete blocks because it wasn't a crossing when I was there. The concrete blocks were being used at Checkpoint Charlie.
Austria ~ Hungary's border fence with Austria was not removed until May 1989.
I was there, also, but I'll just say that this is where they had tow guards ride together so that one wouldn't escape. I wouldn't call it a wall...the road just ended at the border and there was a skull and crossbones sign on a fence where the road ended. That was near Roost, Austria...in the middle of nowhere.