Inner German border
image: Us army bundesgrenzschutz.jpg
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caption: 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.
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alt: 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."
alt: 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.
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caption: BMW Isetta bubble car used to smuggle several East Germans across the border in the 1960s.
label: Frontera interalemana @es
description: ancienne frontière allemande séparant la RFA et la RDA (1949-1989) @fr
label: Perbatasan Jerman dalam @in
width: 167
alt: Tiny red and white bubble car, viewed from the rear, with a dummy in the rear representing a person being concealed in the car.
alt: 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.
builder: East Germany
image: Waldemar estel memorial.jpg
caption: East German border guards near Mackenrode, Thuringia, walking past a propaganda caricature of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
demolished: 1990
garrison: East: Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic
caption: The West German crossing facility at Herleshausen in 1985, looking west along Bundesautobahn 4
description: linea di demarcazione dei territori delle due Germanie tra il 1949 e il 1990 @it
image: Grenzer nato attack.jpg
name: Inner German border
image: Helmut kleinert memorial.jpg
caption: High-speed GDR river patrol boat, equipped with searchlights to detect escapees
alt: 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!"
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20090819081020/http:/home.att.net/~rw.rynerson/british.htm
label: Fronteira interna alemã @pt
width: 120
description: border which separated the territories of the FRG and the GDR
subject: Category:1990 disestablishments in Germany
alt: 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.
garrison: VolkspolizeiWest: Bundesgrenzschutz
battles: Cold War
type: Thing
alt: East German Trabant cars driving between dense crowds of people. Metal gantries over the road and a watchtower are visible in the background.
image: Grenzöffnung Kontrollpunkt Helmstedt 2 .jpg
garrison: British Frontier Service
description: gräns mellan Väst- och Östtyskland @sv
condition: Mostly demolished
image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-42998-0003, Rügen, Grenzpolizei der DDR.jpg
label: Εσωτερική γερμανική συνοριογραμμή @el
bot: InternetArchiveBot
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caption: -1980.0
description: এফআরজি এবং জিডিআর এর সীমানা নির্দেশ করে @bn
alt: 718.0
type: Border fortification system
caption: The East German view: the border depicted as a defensive line against military aggression from NATO.
caption: Vehicles queuing at the East German passport control at the Marienborn crossing point, December 1989
description: 國界 @lzh
caption: Border Reconnaissance soldier, 1979
subject: Category:East Germany–Soviet Union relations
caption: The West German view: "Germany does not end here! The Fatherland is over there too!"
description: границата која ги делела Источна и Западна Германија @mk
location: North and central Germany
type: ArchitecturalStructure
description: Była granica państwowa pomiędzy RFN i NRD @pl
description: граница, разделявшая территории ФРГ и ГДР @ru
fix attempted: yes
date: September 2024
subject: Category:20th century in Germany
subject: Category:Inner German border
subject: Category:Soviet Union–West Germany relations
alt: 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.
type: MilitaryStructure
caption: 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.
caption: United States Army personnel meet with Bundesgrenzschutz officers, 1979.
label: الحدود الألمانية الداخلية @ar
description: Grenze zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik @de
image: Escape boot.jpg
alt: Boat travelling through choppy water leaving a large wake behind it. Cliffs and forested hills can be seen on the shoreline in the background.
image: Mackenrode border.jpg
subject: Category:1945 establishments in Germany
image: Grenzmuseum schifflersgrund.jpg