Witnesses to the Berlin Wall
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A Brief History of a Supply Train in East Germany
In the early hours of the morning just after first light, you passed a group of railway police armed with those nasty little russian sub machine guns. You may recall seeing theirs at some time. I didn't think any more about it. The train then came to a shuddering halt. And here i made a really pretensio, very serious mistake. Instead of asking my soldiers, who had been up all night long, to get out and go and do the patrols, i took my platoon sergeant and myself, with he on one side of the train, nd myself on the other. It was interesting to see that the great tank workshops there, at two o'clock in the
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