Border Stories in Thüringen und Hessen | From Eschwege to Eisenach | The Former Inner German Border

Germany is a fantastic country. Great video too. Thanks Nicole.

Germany is a beautiful country (A German woman almost convinced my parents to allow her adopt me). I enjoy DW Travel videos, you see the world with DW Travel. Thanks Nicole!

Thank you-so nice really of course!!

Absolutely amazing! This production was an amazing job, and very well received!
This brings back some wonderful memories of when I was stationed in Germany during my second tour and bad Hersfeld. I would take trips up to Philipsthal and Eisensch to see the old border fortifications. I myself served on the border a few years earlier in the town of Weiden on the Czechoslovak border.

This awesome! My grandparents lived in Eschwege, and one of my aunts had an apt. on Dr. Gebhardtstrasse across the street from that church with a little playground where I played as a child. My mother is from Kassel and I was born in Frankershausen in 1957. Also have an uncle living in Wanfried and cousins in Giessen. Last time I was there was my honeymoon in 1990.

Given how the long land border between both German states used land mines whereas the Berlin Wall largely didn’t, there must have been more who became amputees there than in Berlin.

Eschwege my Hometown ....

Wartburg is more famous in UK as the name of budget cars imported between 1960's and 1980's. The cars badge has the castle on it

It's funny how more and more Germans wish the unification had never happened. I guess they feel they lost more than they gained.

Love seeing stories about this topic. Would love to see more GDR/DDR stories in the future.

She speaks English without a German accent! Very cool!

You could have included some information on how life in the GDR worked if you lived near the border. There were different zones and you needed special permits to enter these zones, for example. Some zones were only allowed for residents and you couldn't bring guests, if I remember correctly. But on the other hand, if you were living near the border, you had the best reception of "Westfernsehen" (TV stations from Western Germany)!

My father successfully escaped from Vacha to Phillipsthal, in 1966 at the age of 21. Your report made me goosebumps while whatching it.