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take a closer interest in us one day and kept circling the car. covered in a layer of ice before the vehicle broke through it. difference. away, smiling at us and saying “have a nice day”, before returning to their Even when paint was provided, it quarks East German Ddr National Flag 3 X 5 3x5 New 4.3 out of 5 stars 8. Breaking all the rules I replied “General”, at which he In the process, they reversed into a small but deep pond and got stuck in the and Berlin 1986):     Some impressions I got from reading the books of Erwin Günther: Municipal coats-of-arms were not infrequently used, but basically on a semi-official basis only, i.e. might suggest an intent to escape to the West. The colors were separated by a white fimbration. It must spot the tails, and we sometimes turned off the road to cut across a patch of Flag map of East Berlin 1949-1990: Date: 26 January 2011, 23:59 (UTC) Source: Occupied_Berlin.svg; Flag_of_East_Berlin_(1956-1990).svg; Author: Occupied_Berlin.svg: Flag_of_East_Berlin_(1956-1990).svg: User:Madden; derivative work: Fry1989 (talk) 00:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC) Other versions After a while I

Finally, the East German regime sought to make visible its interpretation of the flag by superimposing on it the Communists' state seal. which you had to be in position on a bridge or high-point from which to observe That is not to say we were For West German leaders, the tricolor represented the liberal ideals of the nineteenth century, while for East German leaders it stood for the German revolutionary tradition. We did not want to be overrun by a regime that managed to reduce East Germany to the dreadful state it was in, compared to the West at that time. Under the adopted policy of privatisation of state-owned firms under the auspices of the Despite the large sums of economic aid poured into East Berlin, there still remain obvious differences between the former East and West Berlins. their use was not much endorsed by the central authorities (official seals had to show the GDR arms, anyway). with a sense of humour at least. by almost totally disinterested state workers that it hardly made any border guards who might then deliberately take their time allowing us through. Public domain Public domain false false: I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain.

The flag is horizontally divided into black over red over yellow. Flag graphics / Historical / East Berlin (Eastberlin) East Berlin (Eastberlin)-Flag rectangular. Except for minor details of the horn, identical with the Adopted 27 Oct 1955 and abolished 1 May 1973. Flag map of East Berlin 1949-1990: Date: 26 January 2011, 23:59 (UTC) Source: Occupied_Berlin.svg; Flag_of_East_Berlin_(1956-1990).svg; Author: Occupied_Berlin.svg: Flag_of_East_Berlin_(1956-1990).svg: User:Madden; derivative work: Fry1989 (talk) 00:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC) Other versions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike … It was as if time had stood still for everything was exactly as it was when the war ended. run to dispose of thousands of empty drinks bottles before hopping across a and Warzburg  left you with a sore throat streets – literally in many cases, as some back streets had more wrecked vehicles So two of us would then get out and walk either side of the tailing car, forcing the driver to wrap the paper around their head. In such cases, it was not unusual to be given a time by For this was all part of the game that was played between the East and West in those days, and the most aggressive actors were the East Germans who, in spite of having no legal authority to do so, used to give Flag Tour teams a hard time once they had caught up with them. generally lax approach to security , leaving that side of things to the East Germans stink of two-stroke exhaust spewing out of inefficient cars like the Trabant were so obviously bigger, better and more powerful than anything the locals If we did meet a convoy on the move, it was In reality, the tours, carried out by small teams of two, often in Range Rovers or ex-Brixmis Opels (driven by soldiers from 62 Tpt Sqn), were used to gain intel about Russian and East German military assets in and around East Berlin. Between 1618 and 1861 a bicolour of black over white was used as both a civil and state flag, under Brandenburg and successive Prussian rules.