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Republikflucht only became illegal with the construction of the Berlin wall but was this really the case ? One hears a lot of anecdotes from years prior where travellers took care to avoid being conspicuous by not travelling in groups or carrying too many personal belongings
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From my recollection: My father and mother (born 1942 and 1940) received their first visa to visit
Western Germany in 1989. I'm not certain if they ever dared to ask for one before. My parents (both were teachers) once got told, that they should not invite their relatives from Western Germany. But my
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it was no big problem for westerners going east (the
Federal Republic of Germany aloud it's citizens to travel and migrate where ever thay want to, even GDR; so it wasn't a Republikflucht), traveling wasn't uncommen but migration didn't happen often (but I don't have any numbers and I don't remember
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It was generally fairly easy for people of pension age to get permission to travel West. Their flight risk was deemed to be low and if they failed to return the
Government didn't need to worry about paying their pensions anymore. The main obstacle to such travel was obtaining enough Western currency
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Among other, your search yields "nine years before 406, when the East German refugees from the Huns broke through the
Western Empire's frontier on the Rhine". Besides, the victims of post-WW2 expulsions are also East German refugees, as it is a general term. Republikflucht, which is connected solely
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Grandma was already retired and thus she could not be told not to invite somebody. A lot happened in eastern
Germany without laws or judges. Just decisions by some government employee. Separation of powers did not exist and I did not even know what this concept means, until unification of Germany.
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Should the article not contain a mention of the phenomonen of "border crossers" who lived in East Berlin but worked (and/or shopped) in West Berlin during the 1949-61 period (before the wall was built)Â ? The GDR authorities took a dim view of this practice (perhaps suprisingly given that it was a
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How rare were instances of people moving INTO East
Germany (or other Eastern bloc states) either for political reasons, to escape Western justice or simply to be with family members ? Was it easy to do so and what was the attitude of the Eastern authorities to such immigration (Im guessing they
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This is a case of one German word covering multiple meanings which are different words in
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Republikflucht as "Desertion from the republic". A more obvious translation would be "fleeing the republic". There is an equal problem with the second part of the sentence. "FlĂĽchtling" is also the German word for refugee, as defined by the
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How difficult was it to obtain a temporary exit visa and what measures did the authorities take to ensure those who were issued with them actually intended to return (Im guessing they rarely issued visas to different members of a family at the same time)Â ?
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but never outlawed should be treated quite distinct. (And by the way, especially before the Berlin Wall was built but officially also for all the rest of the time, we would still have to treat the question whether East Berlin was part of the GDR at
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potential source of badly needed foreign currency) and occasionally subjected "border crossers" to varying degrees of burecratic harassment although didnt actually outlaw it outright until 1961.
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