When it comes to DEDK I have great plans about
making a book on the history of making the border.
What particularly interests me is off course the
odd, unnatural and illogical parts of the border like the railway salient, the
zig zag across a meadow, the coast line of the small lake, the divided village,
shifting ownershift of a ditch etc.
And what is also very interesting is the
differences between the referendum line, pre-demarcation treaty and
the final demarcated line, which includes off course the exchange of
land.
I have been to the States Archives where all
correspondence with the border demarcation commission is kept. 4 large
boxes of documents witness of many stories, from people asking not to
divide their farmland to complains about the commission running down a
dog.
Unfortunately the minutes from the commission
meeting has been taken out "to protocol". Nobody has yet been able to tell me
where this protocol is to be found.
But Jan, isn't this something for you to do on
LTRU?
Jesper