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Now, a 'No-Go zone' between former East, West Germany
Sunday May 13, 2012 09:41:23 AM,
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Berlin: A part of the
border between erstwhile East and West Germany may be declared a
"no-go zone" as dozens of minefields have remained uncleared since
the Cold War, an official said.
Jurgen Reinholz, the ecology minister of Thuringia region, said
that more than 40 minefields stretch for some 25 km along the
borders of Thuringia, once part of the Soviet-controlled German
Democratic Republic (East Germany) bordering the Federal Republic
of Germany (West Germany), RIA Novosti reported citing Focus
magazine.
German authorities acknowledge the need to de-mine the area, but
this would be a costly enterprise, the report said.
"If nothing changes, we will declare the area a no-go zone,"
Reinholz told local newspaper OVZ.
A total of 1.2 million mines were laid by East Germany at the
border with West Germany during the Cold War, including half of
them along Thuringia's modern borders, according to local ecology
authorities.
More than 30,000 mines still remain in the ground, the newspaper
said.
Between 100,000 and 200,000 people attempted to flee East Germany
for West across the Berlin Wall from 1961 - when the Wall was
erected - to 1989, when it came down. Some 5,000 people are
believed to have succeeded, while dozens were killed trying to
cross the Wall.
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