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Cost:127,000 Ost Marks per kilometer |
Control
Road.
The control road was a simple cement roadway that enabled the
Grenztruppen to patrol the fence line in vehicles.
It was often just meters away from the border fence and
minefields. There were 1,457 kilometers of this roadway along the
border.
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Cost: 50,000 Ost Marks per kilometer |
Vehicle Ditch. Adjacent to the roadway were anti-vehicle ditches designed to stop a vehicle from ramming the fence. This feature of the border first appeared immediately after WWII when all the Allied powers began closing roads to restrict the flow of refugee traffic. The barriers were about 1 meter deep and 2 meters wide. Vehicle ditches existed along 995 kilometers of the Landesgrenz. |
