"Frank Bures" <feeb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >>> 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.
Well, that's different area and twenty years after the time
Karel was talking about.
pjk
> Cheers
> Frank
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