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Diese Uniform gehörte einem Fregattenkapitän der Volksmarine. Anhand des Ärmelabzeichens lässt sich sein damaliger Dienstzweig die "Technische Laufbahn" ableiten.
Thale is een heerlijk toeristisch oord in Duitsland waar voor ieder wat wils te vinden. Maar op sommige plaatsen is de troosteloosheid van de oude DDR nooit helemaal verdwenen.
A reconstruction of the DDR "dead zone" along the original line of the wall. Located at Berlin Wall Memorial,
Gedenkstätte, Berliner Mauer
Working from the top of the photo down we have
Trees = Friedhof Sophien II Cemetery
DDR Inner wall
Signal fence - touch activated
"Surface Obstacles"/"Stalin's lawn" = A carpet of steel spikes designed to injure anyone who jumped the fence and landed on them.
Watchtower - stood around 250m apart
Bright lights lit up the "death strip" so guards could easily see fugitives.
Patrol Road and security strip - Usually included "tank traps" to stop people fleeing in a vehicle. Sometimes also included dog runs.
The nearly 12' high board wall was the last obstacle for fleeing people.
Here is my homemade controller for a Dance Dance Revolution pad. It allows the pad to be used as a USB keyboard.
Many people thought that the United Natins "Afghanistan's New Beginnings Programme" would not work. It seemed impossible to think that 50 thousand warlord soldiers could be disarmed and the men put to productive work.
It started well with this heavily stage managed disarmament in Kunduz but then slipped into inaction, inefficiency, and lack of purpose as a result of poor management and a lack of political will.
But in the last year and a half of the DDR program things turned around and in the end the ANBP group had more than exceeded the 50 thousand target.