"The Ugly Frontier"
by david shears
published: chatto and windus, London, 1971.
photos, diagrams, maps.
Includes a fantastic photo of the west berlin schoolboy riding his bicycle
to school form his almost-enclaved home in Eiskeller, accompanied, as one
is, by two British armoured cars, As previously the East Germans army had
made life difficult for him, as his home was connected to west belrin proper
by only the width of a small lane until the Berlin agreeement of 1974.
See also Catudal, Honore MArk, Jr. "A balance sheet of the quadripartite
agreement on Berlin" and "The diplomacy of the quad. agreement on Belrin" ,
Berlin Verlag, 1978.
BW
>From: "Doug Murray" <dmurray@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Iron curtain book
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:20:15 -0700
>
>Just found the book "All Along the Wall and Watchtowers" by Oliver August.
>It's a road trip journal along the old intra-German border in 1999.
>It looks interesting.
>
>Can anyone suggest similar books on the old Iron Curtain?
>
>Doug
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: peter.smaardijk@...
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:46 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: search for germany benelux river condos
>advances
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., peter.smaardijk@a... wrote:
> > It looks like you're right. I have a 1:20k map here of the Vianden
> > area, and the points where the border leaves the river Our are at
> > boundary marker 47 (north of Vianden) and boundary marker 19 (south
> of
> > Vianden). These boundary markers are likely to be pairs, one on each
> > bank. Moreover, because of the large width of the river north of
> > Vianden (it is the Bassin Inferieur lake formed by the river dam at
> > Vianden), the boundaries are clearly depicted as following both
> banks,
> > thus leaving the condominium in the middle. I find it strange
> > (although understandable) that the border obviously changed, because
> > the lake certainly wasn't there in 1815, and the borders are
> following
> > the lake shore lines. This is unlike the US example (I believe it
> was
> > in Tennessee) mentioned in this group a couple of days ago.
> Normally,
> > a boundary stays the same, even if a river changes its course,
> unless
> > a new boundary is negotiated. Perhaps that's what has been happening
> > in Vianden.
>
> ..... this new border agreement is most probably that of 1984, as
> reported by Peter H. way back in msg. 1263!
>
> Peter S.
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