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the years the border sector of the 2/14 Armored Cavalry Regiment and
the 2/11 Armored Cavalry Regiment changed as the Soviets and East
German government expanded their plans to stop the citizens of east
Germany from fleeing to the West. Starting as nothing more than an
imaginary demarcation line in 1945, the Iron Curtain grew into the
world's most despised and deadly border.
The following pages of pictures capture these changes in the border sector of 2nd Squadron as troopers from cavalry regiments patrolled the Iron Curtain. |
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GI's at the border crossing 1945. Notice the Soviet guard in the background.- BBP photo |
Area: General
border
E. German Border police training with heavy machine guns 1955. - DDR photo |
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| Jeep patrol in the 2/14 sector. -14th ACR Yearbook 1954 | Night border patrol with the 2/14th ACR - 14th ACR Yearbook 1954 | |||
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| Patrol leader inspects the border. --14th ACR Yearbook 1954 |
Troopers of the 2/14 Cav watching the border. - 14th ACR Yearbook 1954 |
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| Area: Sondheim
Bavarian Border Police on patrol @1961 |
Area: Sondheim
BBP Patrolling the Death Strip 1960. - BBP |
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| Area: Trappstadt
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Border Guards on patrol @ 1963 -BBP |
Area: Trappstadt
& Breitensee
Fence construction 1962 - BBP |
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| Area: Ermershausen
Fence construction June 1962 |
Fence work 1962. - BBP | |||
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| Area:
Schweicherhausen (?)
Border Guard inspecting fence @1963 |
Area:
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| Photo sources: A special thanks to Franz Bode of the Bavarian Border Police who allowed me to copy BBP images back in 1986. These photos are marked BBP. Another thanks goes out to Bob Stefanowicz who provided the photos from the 14th ACR photo annual from 1954. | ||||
