009/002.1
Netherlands - West Germany
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Border Crossing No.
009/002.1 |
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| Date and time: | Monday 22 July 1968, daytime |
| Crossing point: | near Roermond |
| Passport check at: | In car at Dutch and German border station (at?) |
| Travelling: | from Roermond to Rheydt |
| Vehicle: | Car (Roermond - Rheydt) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | A small group of youngsters from Roermond. |
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After we passed the German border the landscape immediately started to be hilly. A train with a small steam locomotive, already nonexistent in Holland, passed by like on a model railway. The sweet green and yellow foreign landscape hushed my fear for entering a country which I considered an enemy, and it added to my excitement. |
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Border Crossing No.
010/002.2 |
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| Date and time: | Monday 29 July 1968, daytime |
| Crossing point: | Fringshaus - Konzen |
| Passport check at: | No check |
| Travelling: | from Aachen to Monschau |
| Vehicle: | Touring-car (Aachen - Monschau) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | A group of German and Dutch youngsters |
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In August 1999 I found out that the main road from Aachen to Monschau leads through a small piece of Belgium. Therefore I had to include two border crossings. |
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Border Crossing No.
011/002.3 |
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| Date and time: | Monday 29 July 1968, daytime |
| Crossing point: | Fringshaus - Konzen |
| Passport check at: | No check |
| Travelling: | from Aachen to Monschau |
| Vehicle: | Touring-car (Aachen - Monschau) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | A group of German and Dutch youngsters |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
012/002.4 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 3 August 1968, morning |
| Crossing point: | Emmerich - Arnhem? |
| Passport check at: | In bus at German and Dutch border station (at?) |
| Travelling: | from Rheydt to Arnhem |
| Vehicle: | Touring-car (Rheydt - Arnhem) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | A group of German and Dutch youngsters |
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I entered Holland with a group of Germans in a typical German bus. I had seen such busses before. Their drivers wore typical German white caps. It was strange, because before I never had said "Germans", but used the abusive term "Moffen" instead. I felt a little bit of shame as we crowded around a kiosk at an open air museum. Between my German companions I was the only one who talked Dutch to the saleswoman. She told me she could not bear all those Germans around her. I smiled at her understandingly. |
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Border Crossing No.
013/002a.1 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 3 August 1968, afternoon - evening |
| Crossing point: | Arnhem - Emmerich? |
| Passport check at: | In bus at Dutch and German border station (at?) |
| Travelling: | from Arnhem to Rheydt |
| Vehicle: | Touring-car (Arnhem - Rheydt) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | A group of German and Dutch youngsters |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
014/002a.2 |
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| Date and time: | Monday 5 August 1968, morning |
| Crossing point: | near Roermond |
| Passport check at: | ? (In bus at German and Dutch border stations?) |
| Travelling: | from Rheydt to Roermond |
| Vehicle: | Bus (Mönchengladbach - Roermond) |
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Single Ticket Mönchengladbach - Elmpt Border
Single Ticket Elmpt Border - Roermond |
| In the company of: | A small group of youngsters from Roermond. |
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In Mönchengladbach we took a German bus to Roermond in Holland, the town were my parents grew up. At the border it appeared that we had to move to a Dutch bus. |
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