Itemoid from the Past: Lübeck, BRD
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Breakfast with Karen and Cindy, then boarded a bus for Lübeck. Nice ride up, lots of greenery, and as we approached, a view of the seven spires of Lübeck. Before we entered the city center (Zentrum) we stopped at a wide place in the road and disembarked. Three busloads of tourists, crowding around to take a look—from a distance, behind a large sign warning us to proceed no further -- at a mean-looking fence and a grim guard tower, looking just like one you’d see over a prison wall. We’d come to the border with the DDR. We were told that there are guard towers every 500 meters from the North Sea to Switzerland.
Labels: Germany, historic artifacts and sites
posted by Dees Stribling @ 10:25 PM
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2 Comments:
The North Sea to Switzerland? Clearly you were misinformed. The border of the DDR didn't go anywhere near Switzerland. The North Sea to Czechoslovakia, perhaps - which presumably had its own towers and grim-faced border guards in those days. Aleksei
Oops, I meant Czechoslovakia.I remember all too well having to go around the hump of East Germany to get from Hamburg to Vienna.
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