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Old Army and Trade Route memorial stone (Touringen stamp no. 323)

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Old Army and Trade Route memorial stone (Touringen stamp no. 323)

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Old Army and Trade Route memorial stone (Touringen stamp no. 323)

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    June 8, 2019

    Mountain biking

    Along the former inner German border one finds again and again references to incidents which happened during the German division. This is thought-provoking and everyone should be happy that the borders in Europe rather than be built up.👍
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    August 25, 2024

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    Collecting stamps is a bit addictive ;-)
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    August 1, 2020

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    Traces of the GDR Border

    On July 7, 1964, at approximately 8:00 p.m., 37-year-old porcelain molder Fritz Zapf from Piesau (Neuhaus district) was shot dead at this spot.

    The two gunmen fired 31 shots. For this, Willi K. (21 years old) and Manfred P. (25) received the GDR's "Border Troops Proficiency Badge":

    They had behaved excellently, "annihilating a border violator with targeted fire."

    Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they were each sentenced by the Meiningen Regional Court to eleven months' imprisonment, suspended on probation. (...from information panel)
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