Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fencing the Street. At the spot where the newly gashed border joins the reinforced frontier of Red Czechoslovakia, 18 of the 22 houses in the Bavarian village of Mödlareuth lay on the east side. A Vopos detachment swung into the village, and built a stout wooden fence, ten feet high, clear through the main street. Miller Wurziger's grain mill stood in the way, so the Vopos tore it down. Wurziger and his son jumped from an upstairs window of their house and dragged Frau Wurziger to safely through the pig sty. Of Mödlareuth...
...could on to farm wagons, and stealthily made off into West Germany. Only one old man stayed behind. He watched the Vopos searching the houses, then asked permission to cross the line to persuade his neighbors to return. Once safely in the West, he tacked a note on the frontier barrier: "I talked to the Liebauers. They are not coming back. Neither...
...faced each other from foxholes across the border between East and West Germany (see above), ready to shoot at the drop of an order. With each of the former allies flanked by armed support from the nation they had fought in World War II (Volkspolizei on the East, German frontier guards on the West), the stage was set for a serious clash of arms. But the order never came...
...German laborers on the British side of the border near Helmstedt and locked them up in a train shed, on the grounds that they were trespassing on Soviet territory. Three bewildered anglers fishing in a border pond were also caught in the net. Major Colin Ball of the British Frontier Inspection Service drove up briskly and demanded their release. "This is the British zone," he said. "No," answered the Russian officer who had stepped out of the woods to meet him. "Look at your map," said Ball. The Russian did so and suggested obliquely that they meet again to discuss...
...border in short order rolled two platoons of blue-uniformed West German frontier guards. The following morning they were joined by two squadrons of British Life Guards in armored cars. By that time, the kidnaped workmen had been released. The Russians and the Vopos had drawn back and dug in on a hill just inside the Soviet Zone. Going into position, the Britons rolled across the meadow below in easy range of the Communist guns. The Russians crept to the forward edge of their vantage point and dug in deeper...