berlin review

the first day of our walking Tour our History student guide from LA took us through some of the dark recent history of Germany .....he covered the cold war era as well.   one of the things they are doing here is outlining the location of the double wall.  He covered the various variations of the wall until the final one which was to construct two parallel walls the area in-between Death alley ws mined. and overlooked by snipers.

He told of some funny escapes.  the barrier at checkpoint  Charlie. was a piece of wood on an arm.some one noticed that it came just to the hood of a normal car.  So he rente a very low slung sports car, picked up his girl friend who refused to leave without her Mother..so he put one of them in the trunk and to the amazement of the border guards he drove straight through to the west going under the barrier.  The guards were so dumbfounded they did not even shoot!  And the following week someone esle did the same with the same happy result.

the present CPC is a mythical place,,,,which our guide was disgusted with,.