Word: volkspolizei
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...made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall Vopo. "Hello, long one," he cried. "Your pants are open...
...political prisoners. They spotted the district attorney, seized him, handcuffed him, threw him atop a police car and beat him to death. A "people's judge," found cowering in the courthouse, was mauled, had one of his ears ripped off before a friend saved him. Soviet tanks and Volkspolizei finally brought quiet to Brandenburg...
...light delivery truck started in pursuit. The thugs in the taxi fired several shots at the truck and sprinkled in their wake tetrahedrons (sharp-pointed military devices for puncturing enemy tires). As the kidnap car careened around the last curve before reaching the sector line, the Communist Volkspolizei, alerted and waiting, lifted their barrier, and the taxi sped through without stopping, bearing Dr. Linse into the sinister maw of East Berlin...
...week, British and Russian soldiers 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...
...crisis rose when a detachment of Red soldiers and Volkspolizei rounded up a locomotive, its driver and 40 West 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...