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- Inner_German_border abstract "The Inner German border (German: innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch-deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the frontier between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990. Not including the similar but physically separate Berlin Wall, the border was 1,393 kilometres (866 mi) long and ran from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia.It was formally established on 1 July 1945 as the boundary between the Western and Soviet occupation zones of Germany. On the eastern side, it was made one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers, defined by a continuous line of high metal fences and walls, barbed wire, alarms, anti-vehicle ditches, watchtowers, automatic booby traps and minefields. It was patrolled by 50,000 armed GDR guards who faced tens of thousands of West German, British and US guards and soldiers. In the hinterlands behind the border were more than a million North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Warsaw Pact troops.The border was a physical manifestation of Winston Churchill's metaphorical Iron Curtain that separated the Soviet and Western blocs during the Cold War. It marked the boundary between two ideological systems – democracy and single-party communism. Built by East Germany in phases from 1952 to the late 1980s, the fortifications were constructed to stop the large-scale emigration of East German citizens to the West, about 1,000 of whom are said to have died trying to cross it during its 45-year existence. It caused widespread economic and social disruption on both sides; East Germans living in the region suffered especially draconian restrictions.The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 155 kilometres (96 mi) to the east of the inner German border (Berlin having been similarly divided by the four powers after World War II, despite the entire city being in the Soviet zone, thus creating an enclave of capitalism surrounded by the communist east). On 9 November 1989, the East German government announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and the inner German border. Over the following days, millions of East Germans poured into the West to visit. Hundreds of thousands moved permanently to the West in the following months as more crossings were opened, and ties between long-divided communities were re-established as border controls became little more than a cursory formality. The inner German border was not completely abandoned until 1 July 1990, exactly 45 years to the day since its establishment, and only three months before German reunification formally ended Germany's division.Little remains of the inner German border's fortifications. Its route has been declared part of a "European Green Belt" linking national parks and nature reserves along the course of the old Iron Curtain from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea. Museums and memorials along the old border commemorate the division and reunification of Germany and, in some places, preserve elements of the fortifications.".
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- Inner_German_border alt "9000.0".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "Black, red and gold West German sign reading "Hier ist Deutschland nicht zu Ende. Auch drüben ist Vaterland!"".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border 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."".
- Inner_German_border alt "East German Trabant cars driving between dense crowds of people. Metal gantries over the road and a watchtower are visible in the background.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border 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!"".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border alt "View of a small streamlined boat resting in a cradle out of the water. The boat is painted white and green, with "G 718" painted on the side. Two searchlights and a loudhailer are attached to the roof of its open-backed cabin.".
- Inner_German_border alt "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.".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border battles Cold_War.
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- Inner_German_border caption "--11-11".
- Inner_German_border caption "--12-04".
- Inner_German_border caption "-1980.0".
- Inner_German_border caption "1960.0".
- Inner_German_border caption "1970.0".
- Inner_German_border caption "Armed GDR border police patrolling a beach on the island of Rügen, 1956".
- Inner_German_border caption "Boot modified with a hooked overshoe to enable the wearer to climb the fences".
- Inner_German_border caption "Border Reconnaissance soldier, 1979".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border caption "Border installations at Schlagsdorf".
- Inner_German_border caption "Deutsche Grenzpolizei patrol boat off the East German island of Rügen, December 1955".
- Inner_German_border caption "East German border guards near Mackenrode, Thuringia, walking past a propaganda caricature of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer".
- Inner_German_border caption "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.".
- Inner_German_border caption "High-speed GDR river patrol boat, equipped with searchlights to detect escapees".
- Inner_German_border caption "Memorial to "the victims of inhumanity" at Rüterberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern".
- Inner_German_border caption "Roll of East German propaganda leaflets in a canister which was fired across the border during the "leaflet war" between East and West Germany".
- Inner_German_border caption "The East German view: the border depicted as a defensive line against military aggression from NATO.".
- Inner_German_border caption "The West German crossing facility at Herleshausen in 1985, looking west along Bundesautobahn 4".
- Inner_German_border caption "The West German view: "Germany does not end here! The Fatherland is over there too!"".
- Inner_German_border caption "United States Army personnel meet with Bundesgrenzschutz officers, 1979.".
- Inner_German_border caption "Vehicles queuing at the East German passport control at the Marienborn crossing point, December 1989".
- Inner_German_border caption "View of border-related exhibits at the Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund in Thuringia".
- Inner_German_border 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.".
- Inner_German_border condition "Mostly demolished, some parts preserved for historic record.".
- Inner_German_border date "April 2012".
- Inner_German_border demolished "1990".
- Inner_German_border garrison "Bayerische Grenzpolizei".
- Inner_German_border garrison "British Army".
- Inner_German_border garrison "British Frontier Service".
- Inner_German_border garrison "Bundeszollverwaltung".
- Inner_German_border garrison "East: National People's Army".
- Inner_German_border garrison "Group of Soviet Forces in Germany".
- Inner_German_border garrison "Stasi".
- Inner_German_border garrison "US Army".
- Inner_German_border garrison "Volkspolizei".
- Inner_German_border garrison "West: Bundesgrenzschutz".
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