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The Border Between Germany and East Germany

A tearful frauka ound herself on that train heading east. She was allowed to spend a few brief hours with ky, but then she had turn herself in at a reception centre just north of berlin. Anyone who arrived in east germany from the west had to be debriefed. They didn't want to be offering sanctuary to spies. It was like a high security prison. We were woken up at six, and then there was breakfast, and then mostly we ad what they called conversations. What this meant was sitting down with people from state security, the starse ten hours at a stretch. You had to repeat everything they were checking to see if you made

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