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Until 1989, the five-hundred-meter-wide GDR border split the German Harz Mountains in half.
Inner German Border
In the German municipality of Hötensleben, a 350-meter wall remains, a remnant of the kilometre-long border that sealed off the GDR from West Germany.
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