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Witnesses to the Berlin Wall

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The Germans, the Germans and the West Burlins.

I was the nbc newkthe biological chemical warfare officer in my battalion, responsible for instructing the whole battalion. And it is extraordinarly, really, to think about that, you know, where we would have been if there h'd been nuclear exchange. Of course, the awful thing really wastat the west berlins. I think i'd be right in saying were absolutely distraught about the there's plenty of of this about the building of the wall and had to be held back by the excellent west berlin police. So maybe, but you can't rewrite history. You could make a plan for a military move on the autobon, and we did have plans for that

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