Paul J Kriha wrote:
> "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:
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> [...]
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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.
There were quite a few villages in Krusne Hory that were arbitrarily
divided by the border between CSSSSSR and DDR. Brandov comes to mind.
The
border was in the middle of a little stream passing through the middle of
the village. There was a sign on the bridge saying something like DDR
border, do not enter, but nobody payed any attention. There was no pub on
the Czech side, so everyone would simply go and drink in DDR on a daily
basis. They even accepted Czech money. The time period I am talking
about
was late 70's and early 80's of the last century. There were no towers
and
no visible border.
Cheers
Frank
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