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"Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kriha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Karel Kriz" <karel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:karel-C86F19.17433006042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In article <47f948cc$0$26087$88260bb3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > John Horak <johorak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> [...]
>
> > > 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
It's all a bit lost in the mists of time. Here's what I got from a
friend when I asked:
"Ve Fry´dlantu byla hranice s bratry Enderáky a Poláky, která byla
hlídaná a kontrolovali a hlídali Psáci tam, aby nikdo neprecházel.
Hranicní pásmo tak jako na západní hranici i nekolik kilometru tam
ale nebylo, Jen samé cedule a strázní veze, aby na sebe hlídky
videly. Na ceste pratelstvi po hrebenu Krkonos byli zalezlí vojáci v
kleci a kdyz jsem se, tehdy jako malej kluk, sel vycurat na polskou
stranu do klece, tak hned vystartovali a delali problémy nasemu
vedoucímu. Musel mít nás seznam a kontrolovali nás."
The towers I remember, and the brushed sand strip also. Maybe it was not
quite as strict as on the border with NDR, but it was still guarded, at
least where I was.
K
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