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| A member of the Grenztruppen (left) talks with a Czech border guard as the he makes his rounds. - NVA photo |
Border Sector Czeckoslavikia (CSSR)
| Grenzabschnittskommando
CSSR
was an independent regiment that watched over the 430 kilometers of the shared border with Czechoslovakia.
This border, like the Polish border, was not heavily guarded. The unit
worked on the border from 1961-1990.
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Grenzabschnittskommando "Walter Breitfeld" |
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| Headquarters | Pirna | ||
| Grenzunterabschnitt I | Schoenberg | ||
| Grenzunterabschnitt II | Klingenthal | ||
| Grenzunterabschnitt III | Oberwiesenthal | ||
| Grenzunterabschnitt IV | Caemmerswalde | ||
| Grenzunterabschnitt V | Zinnwald | ||
| Grenzunterabschnitt VI | Seifhennersdorf | ||
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| A member of the Grenztruppen (left) talks with a Czech border guard as the he makes his rounds. - NVA photo |