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FIGURE 33. Boundary data (C)
Boundary Length (Miles) Status Terrain
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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