Through this 40-meter-long concrete tube once Stasi employees were clandestinely rooted through the inner-German border - sometimes for espionage to West Germany, sometimes for rapport to East Germany. If you are brave, today you can even crawl through it yourself.

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Franzl wandert 🥾

July 31, 2025

Hiking

This was the first time I'd ever seen a Stasi tunnel like this. It was fascinating. They'd thought of practically everything. 😬

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Barnergy

March 20, 2020

Mountain biking

This OGS - "Operative Border Lock" - is proven by credible reports from simple border guards and ex-border officers. Here the regular troops were "horrified" / exchanged for a few hours so that people could be smuggled

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