View of border-related exhibits at the Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund in Thuringia
View of a small village with houses and a church, located in a wooded valley, with a river in the foreground. A high concrete wall separates the village from the river.
View of two lines of vehicles passing between two buildings, with four passport control booths visible, under a corrugated metal roof. A long line of vehicles stretches into the distance below towers ringed with searchlights.
德國國內邊界
Grenzübergangsstelle Marienborn 1 .jpg
Helmut kleinert memorial.jpg
Escape boot.jpg
Granica wewnątrzniemiecka
Grenzoeffnung bei heinersdorf.jpg
Waldemar estel memorial.jpg
ancienne frontière allemande séparant la RFA et la RDA (1949-1989)
Tiny red and white bubble car, viewed from the rear, with a dummy in the rear representing a person being concealed in the car.
National People's Army
Hier ist deutschland.jpg
Border fortification system
Armed GDR border police patrolling a beach on the island of Rügen, 1956
Grenztruppen der DDR.JPEG
Frontera interalemana
Steel, concrete
Close-up view of a boot which has been modified with a hooked overshoe, shown on a section of border fence to demonstrate how it would have been used to climb it.
The West German crossing facility at Herleshausen in 1985, looking west along Bundesautobahn 4
Innerdeutsche Grenze
BMW Isetta bubble car used to smuggle several East Germans across the border in the 1960s.
Fur die opfer.jpg
left
border which separated the territories of the FRG and the GDR
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-35031-0001, Rügen, Boot der Grenzpolizei.jpg
Isetta marienborn.jpg
Border Reconnaissance soldier, 1979
Fronteira interna alemã
High-speed GDR river patrol boat, equipped with searchlights to detect escapees
Inomtyska gränsen
Three uniformed men, armed with assault rifles, walking in a column through a grassy landscape with dense trees in the background. A canvas-sided truck is visible in the left background and part of another vehicle is seen on the right in a stretch of ploughed-up ground.
linea di demarcazione dei territori delle due Germanie tra il 1949 e il 1990
Boat travelling through choppy water leaving a large wake behind it. Cliffs and forested hills can be seen on the shoreline in the background.
границата која ги делела Источна и Западна Германија
Us army bundesgrenzschutz.jpg
Memorial to "the victims of inhumanity" at Rüterberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-42998-0003, Rügen, Grenzpolizei der DDR.jpg
Two armed men, one with a rifle with a bayonet attached and the other carrying a submachine gun, walking along the water's edge below a line of cliffs.
এফআরজি এবং জিডিআর এর সীমানা নির্দেশ করে
Gdr river patrol boat.jpg
Bayerische Grenzpolizei
Inner German border
East: Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic
September 2024
United States Army personnel meet with Bundesgrenzschutz officers, 1979.
граница, разделявшая территории ФРГ и ГДР
양독 국경
Mostly demolished
Up to
Aerial view of a four-lane motorway crossing green fields, with a small village with a church spire in the distance to the left of the motorway. In the foreground, there is a white roof structure, resting on slim white pillars, across all four lanes of the motorway; to the left, the roof also extends over a slip lane which branches off from the main road and then rejoins it; on the right, just before the roof structure, there is a parking lot with diagonally parked orange and brown lorries.
Roll of East German propaganda leaflets in a canister which was fired across the border during the "leaflet war" between East and West Germany
A large number of people of various ages standing and walking along a road in front of a high concrete wall, behind which houses and a church are visible in a wooded valley.
Confine tra Germania Est e Germania Ovest
East german propaganda mortar.jpg
Herleshausen border crossing.jpg
The West German view: "Germany does not end here! The Fatherland is over there too!"
Boulder carved with the words "Für die Opfer der Unmenschlichkeit". In the background are a section of border fence and a yellow sign showing a kneeling soldier taking aim with a rifle.
Border Troops of the GDR guarding border maintenance workers in 1979. The workers would be shot if they crossed the red "cord of death" in the foreground.
Vehicles queuing at the East German passport control at the Marienborn crossing point, December 1989
Vnitroněmecká státní hranice
British army inner german border.jpg
Grenzmuseum schifflersgrund.jpg
Deutsche Grenzpolizei patrol boat off the East German island of Rügen, December 1955
British Frontier Service
Frontière interallemande
الحدود الألمانية الداخلية
Duits-Duitse grens
Bundeszollverwaltung
Elevated view of a series of huts and vehicles exhibited in the open air on either side of a stretch of concrete patrol road, with a range of forested hills visible in the background.
Group of three United States soldiers, one armed with a rifle, and two West German Bundesgrenzschutz officers standing by two vehicles parked on a narrow asphalted road in a rolling landscape with fields and hills visible behind them.
Armed East German guard standing in a grassy field taking a photograph of the photographer. A border fence and a truck are visible in the background, some distance behind the soldier.
Grenzer nato attack.jpg
國界
Boot modified with a hooked overshoe to enable the wearer to climb the fences
East German memorial to border guard Waldemar Estel, who was shot on the border on 3 September 1956. The GDR blamed "imperialist agents" for his death.
Государственная граница ГДР и ФРГ
Była granica państwowa pomiędzy RFN i NRD
right
Mackenrode border.jpg
Two armed East German soldiers, seen through a barbed-wire fence, walking from right to left through a grassy hilly landscape towards a clump of young trees. Behind them is a very large propaganda sign showing a caricature of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer clutching a missile while standing on a ladder being propped up by a military officer. The rungs of the ladder are made from the acronym "NATO". The sign is captioned: "Wer hoch hinaus will, fällt tief!"
Border installations at Schlagsdorf
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East German Trabant cars driving between dense crowds of people. Metal gantries over the road and a watchtower are visible in the background.
Two British soldiers carrying rifles standing behind a pair of Land-Rover vehicles, one of which has a "British Frontier Service" plate. Behind them is a high mesh fence, behind which is a tall watchtower with an octagonal cabin at its top.
West German memorial to Helmut Kleinert, shot dead on the border on 1 August 1963. His death was memorialised by the German Federation of Trade Unions.
Perbatasan Jerman dalam
Grenze zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
Damaged metal plaque reading "Am 3.9.1956 wurde WALDEMAR ESTEL Getreiter der Grenztruppen der NVA in Ausübung seine Dienstes an der Staatsgrenze von Agenten des Imperialismus ermordet. Sein Tod ist uns Verpflichtung."
The East German view: the border depicted as a defensive line against military aggression from NATO.
Sparnberg 1980s.jpg
σύνορο
Grenzöffnung Kontrollpunkt Helmstedt 2 .jpg
Державний кордон НДР та ФРН
Εσωτερική γερμανική συνοριογραμμή
Black, red and gold West German sign reading "Hier ist Deutschland nicht zu Ende. Auch drüben ist Vaterland!"
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東西ドイツの国境
North and central Germany
VolkspolizeiWest: Bundesgrenzschutz
az NDK és az NSZK közötti határ
Stasi
Two metal canisters resting on a glass shelf with a roll of papers, on which a question mark is visible, in between them. A two-euro coin is positioned to the left to provide a scale.
East German border guards near Mackenrode, Thuringia, walking past a propaganda caricature of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
gräns mellan Väst- och Östtyskland
Outline map of Belgium, the Netherlands, West Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia with arrows indicating the direction of a hypothetical NATO attack from West Germany into East Germany and Czechoslovakia. An advancing tank is shown in the background behind the map.