"Karel Kriz" <karel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:karel-C86F19.17433006042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <47f948cc$0$26087$88260bb3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> John Horak <johorak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[...]
> > Nice story, however I believe that Frydland is located north from
> > Liberec, close to the border with the friendly socialist DDR and
Poland.
> > jh.
>
> Well, I think that's where it was. Even though the East Germans were
> friendly, the border was still guarded at that time...around 1960. Beats
> me why. I just remember there were two fences with a strip of combed
> sand in between and additional strips where there was no vegetation on
> either side of the fences. The towers were within eyesight of each
> other. It's possible I am confusing it with somewhere else, but I don't
> think so.
> K
Who knows, it could be just the strech of the border you saw
but I'd tend to assume that you are indeed just confused.
I've been to that area in the late fifties and early sixties and
I never saw a border like that. The whole Frydlant enclave
into Poland borders with Poland, not Germany. Border with
Germany starts farther west near Hradek n/Nisou.
I don't know what the German border west of Hradek was like.
The border with Poland was easy to cross, many people have
done it accidentally in winter while skiing and ended up helping
rebuilding Warszaw for several months.
As a kid I remember standing a few times over a carved
border stone marker on the Polish border somewhere in
the middle of deep forest over there with one foot in CSR
and one in Poland and getting photos taken.
In the later years, mid sixties, two of my friends and I crossed
the border illegally and went hitchhiking towards the Baltic. We
didn't manage to reach the ocean, after one week we gave it
up and spent another week getting back from half way up
into Poland.
pjk
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