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GERMANY, THE LITTLE BERLIN OF BAVARIA
Still today, many years after the German reunification, the Northern Bavaria's region of Frankenwald shows many evidences of the old Iron Courtain that divided Eastern Europe from Western Europe. The most importanti s in the small village of Mödlareuth, situated partly in Bavaria and partly in Thuringia, was called Little Berlin because a wall divided it, like the Berlin Wall divided Berlin. The northern part was in East Germany and the southern part in West Germany. Now a museum shows the history of the villane at Cold War times. In 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. After the village became divided by the border between two states, DDR (German Democratic Republic) and BD( German Federal Republic). A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. Many local villagers of Eastern Side residents were forced to revocate and, after the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. In 1983 the U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited the village and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement. Seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down on 17 June 1990 using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial, as since 1994, Mödlareuth has had an open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany that includes a portion of the original wall. Although today the passage between the two parts of the village is free the residents still vote separately and send their children to different schools. Many other evidences, like, borders marks, military roads and watching towers survive in the forests of the Frankenwald. Others images of this reportage shows the daily life in DDR time.

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  • Northen Frankenwald, a Bavaria's finger in the hearth of Turingia. View tower Thuringian Warte (look-out), built in the year 1963, rises 26.5 meters high on the top of the Ratzenberg hill. The air-line distance from there to the border of Thuringia is only 200 meters. Because of its unique situation at the former border between Bavaria and the German Democratic Republic, it was not only a "window" to the other part of Germany, but also an important touristic attraction in Bavaria, which has seen up to about 1 million visitors until present. Even today, after the reunification of the two German states, the Thuringia Warte is still an attraction.
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald) a sovietic thank in open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald) a sovietic thank in open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald), open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer, but a small portion has been retained as a memorial. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald), open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer, but a small portion has been retained as a memorial. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald), open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer, but a small portion has been retained as a memorial. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald), open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. Military vehicles of ancient DDR (German Democratic Republic). This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald) a popular Trabant Car of the time of DDR (German Democratic Republic) in open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald), open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer, but a small portion has been retained as a memorial. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald) open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. Posters of DDR (German Democratic Republic) time. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald) open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. Posters of DDR (German Democratic Republic) time. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Modlareüth (Frankenwald) open-air museum about the border between East and West Germany. Posters of DDR (German Democratic Republic) time. This village at Cold War time was called the Little Berlin because in 1945, Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, while Bavaria went to the American occupation zone. Divided by the Tannbach River (only one foot wide) which flows through Mödlareuth, the small village became divided by the border between two states. A pass was required to cross between the two parts of town. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, walls were built in other towns on the border as well. The wall of Mödlareuth was built in 1966. From that point on, the East German part of the village was strictly monitored day and night, while on the West German side the wall became a kind of tourist attraction. .In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.[1]..On 17 June 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell and four months before German reunification, the Mödlareuth Wall was knocked down using a bulldozer. A small portion has been retained as a memorial...[edit]
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  • Frankenwald, the old border marks of DDR (Eastern German Democratic Republic in the earth of the forest near the village of Probstzella in Turingia
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  • Frankenwald, DDR (Eastern German Democratic Republic)  border police items and memorabilia in a old watch tower in the earth of the forest near the village of Probstzella in Turingia.
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  • Frankenwald, DDR (Eastern German Democratic Republic)  border police items and memorabilia in a old watch tower in the earth of the forest near the village of Probstzella in Turingia.
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  • Frankenwald, DDR (Eastern German Democratic Republic)  border police items and memorabilia in a old watch tower in the earth of the forest near the village of Probstzella in Turingia.
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  • Frankenwald, what remains of the old border Wall between East and West in the earth of the forest near the village of Probstzella in Turingia.
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  • A military road of the ancient DDR /German Democratic Republic) in the forest near the border between Bavaria (West) and Thuringia (East).
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  • Lauenstein castle, which has sections dating back to the 12th century, on a hill above Ludwigsstadt. This legendary castle, a jewel in the Franconia Forest, rises on top of a forested hill near the Wall that until 1989 divided Bavaria (West) from Thuringia in DDR (German Democraic Republic).
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