17. Oktober 1949
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Potsdam (inner German border) | ![]() | |||
Heiligenstadt (camp), East Germany | ![]() | |||
Arenshausen – Inner German border | ![]() ![]() | |||
Friedland (border transit camp), West Germany | ![]() |
17 Oct early in the morning arrival in Heiligenstadt. I had travelled from home the evening before. In Potsdam (inner German border!)[1] I was checked by a Volkspolizei officer[2]. It was pitch dark, and he made it very short. - Heiligenstadt is the last stop in the Soviet Occupied Zone. Germany seemed to consist only of borders. So in Heiligenstadt into a camp again. When I arrived, there was a train at the station that was about to cross the “border” to Friedland.[3] I was about to change trains straight away, but was told at the last minute that I had to go to the camp first[4] so that I could be properly issued with the necessary papers. That took another day, and I had to spend the night in the camp. The camp employed a few maids for cleaning and servicing, one of whom was from Gdansk. I once went for a walk with her to the surrounding hills. The area is beautiful. This girl lived with 2 other colleagues in a flat outside the camp, where I also visited her once.
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- ↑ Interzonal trains were checked in Potsdam before 3 October 1954, then in Griebnitzsee (administrational archive of the former Reichsbahn Direction Berlin in the Berlin State Archive, Sign. A2130, specified in: Peter Bock: Interzonenzüge. Eisenbahnverkehr im geteilten Deutschland. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 1998, p. 37).
- ↑ It was “German Border Police”, as well as on 19.10.49.
- ↑ “across the border” simply meant “towards the border”, because since 1884, the Arenshausen-Friedland link was abandoned; homecomers were taken by train only as far as Arenshausen and had to walk a good eight kilometres from there to Friedland.
- ↑ as indicated here, it was in today’s lingemann-gymnasium.de/unsere-schule/wir-ueber-uns/geschichte/1933-heute/ State Grammar School “Johann Georg Lingemann” opposite the railway station