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Cold War Conversations

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The History of the East German Phone System

I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of the East German phone system was still the same infrastructure from sort of like the Nazi era. I mean, was it an old infrastructure in East Germany? Actually, two friends of mine were doing their apprenticeship with Deutsche Post and they have a much better picture than I do. Most of the public infrastructure like what Deutsche Post had was indeed very, very old,. Mostly mechanical stuff that you had some relays and stuff that was really, you know, like maybe not World War II, but you know, not much, not much newer.

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