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Boundary | Length (Miles) | Status | Terrain |
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U.S.S.R. | 60 | Demarcated, undisputed. Security measures include cleared strips and guards. | Northern half traverses densely forested mountains and hills, southern half crosses relatively flat, cultivated plain. |
Poland | 864 | Demarcated, undisputed. Security measures include cleared strips, trip flares, minefields, barbed wire, and observation towers. | Traverses mostly steep, forested mountains and hills. Nearly flat to rolling cultivated plains in area of the Morava-Oder Corridor. |
East Germany | 285 | Demarcated, undisputed. Security measures include cleared strips (Figure 34), fences, flares, guard towers, and patrols. | Hills and mountains, predominantly densely forested, but brush and cultivated crops common in some places. |
West Germany | 220 | Demarcated, undisputed. Most intensive boundary security; measures include minefields, observation towers (Figure 35), cleared strips, barbed wire, patrols, and other obstacles (Figure 36). | Densely forested, steep hills and mountains. |
Austria | 355 | Demarcated, undisputed. Security measures include barbed wire (Figure 37) and watch towers. | Forested hills with small areas of cultivated rolling lowlands in west; relatively flat, cultivated plains in eastern section; border formed by Morava and Danube rivers for about 70 miles (Figure 38). |
Hungary | 420 | Demarcated, undisputed. Security measures include barbed wire, cleared strops, and minefields. | Relatively flat plains in western section; flat to rolling plains and hills, spurs of forested Carpathian Mountains in east. Cultivated grain crops, vegetation, and grasses on plains; scattered patches of forest and brush. Broadleaf deciduous in higher areas. Danube and Ipel rivers form border for about 90 and 70 miles, respectively. |
FIGURE 34. The border with East Germany at about 50°44'N., 13°46'E. Security measures include fences and cleared strips. (C)
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