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"At one point, the tour bus carrying representatives of the German Environment
Ministry and journalists from the city of Rostock in the German state of
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt traveled through an
almost uninhabited area.
This is where the border between the Federal Republic of Germany (or FRG, more
commonly known as West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (or GDR,
more commonly known as East Germany) used to be. It was effectively the border
between two global power blocs: the west with NATO, and the east with the
Warsaw Pact. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that is."
Via Esther Schindler, who wrote "Uplifting news: The strip of land that once
divided East and West Germany is now one of the country’s richest habitats."
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