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    The inner German border (German: innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch–deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the frontier between the German Democratic...
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    The inner German border was a complex system of interlocking fortifications and security zones 1,381 kilometres (858 mi) long and several kilometres deep...
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    Fall of inner German border, also known as Opening of inner German border (German: Öffnung der innerdeutschen Grenze), rapidly and unexpectedly occurred...
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  • border guards of the inner German border comprised tens of thousands of military, paramilitary and civilian personnel from both East and West Germany...
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  • victims of the inner German border during its 45 years of existence from 1945 to 1990. Between 1945 and 1988, around 4 million East Germans migrated to the...
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    guarding the Berlin Wall and the Inner German border, the GDR's international borders between West Berlin and West Germany respectively. The force belonged...
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    Crossing the inner German border remained possible throughout the Cold War; it was never entirely sealed in the fashion of the border between the two Koreas...
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  • zones of Germany, in 1949 the inner German border became the frontier between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) and the German Democratic...
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  • Thumbnail for Museums of the inner German border
    Numerous museums of the inner German border are located along the course of the former border between East and West Germany, documenting its story and...
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    Inner German relations (German: Innerdeutsche Beziehungen), also known as the FRG-GDR relations, East Germany-West Germany relations or German-German...
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    the inner German border Development of the inner German border Escape attempts and victims of the inner German border Fall of the inner German border Fortifications...
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    Schießbefehl (category GDR Border Troops)
    400 people having died at the Inner German border during its existence. After German Reunification in 1990, East German leader Erich Honecker was indicted...
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    870-mile (1,400 km) network of inner-German border fences and guard towers formerly separating East and West Germany. It is one of the world's most unusual...
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    East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland, pronounced [ˈɔstˌdɔʏtʃlant] ), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik...
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    Berlin Wall (category Inner German border)
    Along with the separate and much longer inner German border, which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize physically the...
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    Checkpoint Charlie (category Berlin border crossings)
    the inner German border between the two German states was closed and a barbed-wire fence erected. Even after closing of the inner German border officially...
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    and East German authorities at major crossings between the sectors. This free access, especially after the closure of the Inner German border, allowed...
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    Iron Curtain (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the so-called "inner German border" – commonly known as die Grenze in German – between East and West Germany. Elsewhere along the border between West and...
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    Grepo (category Inner German border)
    inner German border and the Berlin Wall, but can be used to refer to other border police, such as the former Bayerische Grenzpolizei (Bavarian Border...
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  • (GDR), was the largest and most important border crossing on the Inner German border during the division of Germany. Due to its geographical location, allowing...
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    from the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany initiated the first conservation projects targeting the inner German border. After...
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    of Czechoslovakia. The border system of Czechoslovakia was not as elaborate and fortified as that of the Inner German border or the Berlin Wall, but...
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  • Night Crossing (category Films set in East Germany)
    escape from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon during the Inner German border-era when immigration to West Germany was strictly prohibited...
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    (including Trier, Koblenz, and Montabaur). Also created was the Inner German Border as the boundary between the Western and Soviet occupation zones....
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    Fulda Gap (category Articles containing German-language text)
    57th GMRD The Fulda Gap (German: Fulda-Lücke), an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border (the former Inner German border) and Frankfurt am Main, contains...
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    Fall of the Berlin Wall (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of the inner German border took place shortly afterward. An end to the Cold War was declared at the Malta Summit three weeks later and the German reunification...
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    Eisenach (redirect from Eisenach, Germany)
    centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situated near the former Inner German border. A major attraction is Wartburg castle...
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    Observation Post Alpha (category Inner German border)
    dedicated to keeping it and a nearby section of the inner German border as reminders of the division of Germany and the confrontation between NATO and Warsaw...
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    Erich Honecker (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from...
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    SM-70 (category Inner German border)
    East German directional fragmentation antipersonnel mine developed specifically to combat Republikflucht (defection) across the Inner German Border (Grenze)...
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