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...fence follows the border like a giant snake, twisting and turning, dipping and curving around fingers of Wrest German land that jut into East Germany. On the Elbe River north of Helmstedt, East German patrol boats watch out for refugees. At Schnackenburg, the Communist patrol boats share the river with West German customs boats, inspecting the traffic that flows into East Germany. "It's hard to believe that this is the Elbe, and that these people speak German," says one West German customs official. "We haven't exchanged words in five years...
Vodka & Cigarettes. Between Schnackenburg and Helmstedt, hundreds of work-corps youths are building the new wall. In some areas, the crews manage to seal off as much as six miles of the border a day. The fence weaves through the Hansel-and-Gretel-like Harz Mountain forests. Near Braunlage, I came upon two miserably wet East German guards standing alongside the brook that separates the two zones. From my side of the barbed wire, I offered them a cigarette and then a drink from a pocket flask. "Ja, bitte," they said, and I threw both cigarettes and flask across...
...British and French account for the rest of an Allied garrison of about 11,000 troops. To supply them, the U.S. runs two to three convoys per week-three to ten trucks in each convoy-over the 110-mile, four-lane Autobahn between the border check point of Helmstedt, and Berlin (see map). The British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over the road monthly, plus some 600 barges through...
...HELMSTEDT, Germany, Feb. 4--Under sharp attack by the United States, Soviet authorities yesterday turned loose a U.S. Army truck convoy they had held in East Germany for 53 hours...
...Local agreements multiply. Example: at Helmstedt a coal mine split by the Iron Curtain is again being worked as one mine instead...