Soldiers once patrolled the border between East and West Germany, sealed 50 years ago ... simply click on the red balloons on the map above the border site. A window will open with a before ...

East Germany abruptly halted free travel to Czechoslovakia Tuesday, effectively sealing off its porous border in a last-ditch attempt to stem the recent hemorrhage of its citizens to the West.

I bought two shortwave radios, got myself detailed maps and got my wife to drop me off near the small city of Schnackenburg in Lower Saxony, near the border (separating East and West Germany).