Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
...dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade their few belongings for food...