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During Germany's division, the Helmstedt-Marienborn border post was the most crucial crossing along the German internal border.
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Until 1989, the five-hundred-meter-wide GDR border split the German Harz Mountains in half.
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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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