On Jan 3, 7:15*pm, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:


At the platform in Friedrichstraße station, trains arriving from East
Berlin were first checked by East German border guards if everyone on
board was in possession of a visa to West Germany, and the carriages
were searched by dogs from underneath.


Now why, if the people were as happy to in the DDR as Luko says, would
that have needed to do that?

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