Word: deutschkreutz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others have laid wooden planks on the wire. Austrian authorities estimate that some 6,000 have got across safely. Of late only one in three attempts is successful, and at least 500 have been killed by mines and border guards. In the cemetery in the little border village of Deutschkreutz are buried 100 who did not make it to freedom...
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