And then suddenly it happened on a Saturday afternoon in the mid-1980s. The families were sitting at the set coffee table in the garden in front of the former train station building when a US helicopter rattled towards Görsdorf, which is on the Thuringian side along the border with the former GDR. In and of itself, this was nothing new, because at that time routine flights to observe the “Iron Curtain” from an “eagle's perspective” always took place.
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Enrico

February 15, 2024

You can still see the old rails and barriers

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