Reinhard, Germany, looking through the site


, Reinhard, Thueringen, Germany - The village was in GDR times the westernmost town on the inner-German border and thus also the most western part of the Warsaw Pact, a potential staging ground for an attack against the West (Fulda Gap scenario). This was restricted. Unreliable force people here early 60s were forcibly resettled because of Grenznaehe with the action of vermin the Stasi inland. A total of 200,000 people in East Germany lived in the restricted zone, almost as under martial law. / In the beginning of the 60s people were forced to move furtheraway to inner regions of the GDR Whenthere Regarded as NOT POLITICAL not reliable. This happened in many places in the 50s and 60s near the border to the West. The people who were allowed to stay in this restricted area were 200,000 in wholesale GDR and had live under constant control of the Authorities, almost like under martial law. Reinhard's what the most western village in the GDR, for the soviets the best place for attacking the West (Fulda Gap) ..


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Location: Reinhard, Thueringen, Germany
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