than people were in the context of two major actions on the inner-German border at the behest of the East German government in 1952 (code name "vermin") and 1961 (code-named "Cornflower ") from their villages - as it was glossed over -" resettled ". has also been up in the seventies, after also worn down and the last inhabitants were expelled, many of these villages, the East German leaders were close to the "border-West", razed to the ground. All these villages were in the so-called "exclusion zone". The total area of 5-km restricted zone along the 1394 km long border covered over 3,000 square kilometers, which was about 2.8% of the territory of East Germany, more than the area of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The truck came at dawn with minimum power. Of the People's Armed policemen jumped off platforms, invaded the houses in front of the village and gave brief instructions: "Make ready to pack things for your own safety, you must immediately leave the boundary circle..." People were quick to gather together a few belongings, they were loaded onto trucks and brought in hastily erected homeless shelters throughout the GDR. Just as the 100-strong community Stresow, 45 kilometers north west of Magdeburg located on the Elbe, were from May 1952 Hundreds of villages depopulated between Rhön and the Baltic Sea. They had in the eyes of state security a major flaw - they were too close to the border with the West. Action vermin ": The code name of the forced resettlement action was. It was meticulously planned and was considered a "secret classified information." A legal basis for this action did not exist. It was based only on orders and instructions of the Minister of State Security Wilhelm Zaisser and stood in stark contrast to the GDR constitution. But the State Security had authority over the border regime.
triggered the forced relocation was the Council of Ministers of the GDR of 26 May 1952 "on measures at the demarcation line between East Germany and the Western occupation zones of Germany, "which provided for a rapid expansion of intra-German border. It towers were built, pulled head-high fences and created a 500 meter wide protective strip that could be entered only in daylight and with a special pass. The entire border area to a depth of 5 kilometers was declared a "restricted zone".
taught Initially, the forced relocation only against "hostile, suspicious and criminal elements" that should be removed as quickly as possible from the border area. This could be farmers, the resisted collectivization, persons with frequently changing sexual intercourse " or simply political dissidents. The frame was from the State Security broad. Not rare enough, but also denunciations to be included on the list of "hostile elements". In the course of forced resettlement, whole villages and towns were depopulated in the border area. From the "Action vermin" were in the 1950s affected some 10,000 people from the "Action cornflower" in 1961, again about 2000. More than 3,000 people escaped by fleeing the resettlement in the West. But even in the 1970s and 1980s there were occasional forced relocation from the border area.
for the displaced had forced the evacuation from their homes in most cases a farewell, never to return. The villages were depopulated in the course of the further expansion of border security systems often razed to the ground - like the village Stresow on the Elbe. Simultaneously, the State Security had put all the parties concerned urgently close, to maintain silence about what happened. Compensation for the loss of homes and farms was not provided.
following villages were destroyed during GDR times, after its inhabitants had been expelled. This is only a selection are not limited to:
- Bardo Wieck, district Grevesmühlen
- Billmuthausen, district Hildburghausen
- Broda, Kreis Ludwigslust
- Dornholz, Kreis Schleiz
- Erlebach, Kreis Hildburghausen
- Grabenstedt, Kreis Salzwedel
- Hammerleithen, Kreis Plauen
- Holy Roda, Kreis Bad Salzungen
- Jahrsau, Kreis Salzwedel
- Kaulsroth, Kreis Sonneberg
- Korberoth, Kreis Sonneberg
- Lankow, Kreis Schoenberg
- Leitenhausen, Kreis Hildburghausen
- Lenschow, Kreis Grevesmühlen
- Liebau, Kreis Sonneberg
- walked Kreis Hagenow
- Neuhof, Kreis Gadebusch
- Neu Gallin, Kreis Hagenow
- Niederndorf, Kreis Bad Salzungen
- Rupp, district Meiningen
- Schmerbach, district Meiningen
- Schwenger, the Bad Salzungen
- Stöckigt (only the district), district Plauen
- Stresow, Salzwedel
- Vockfey at Neuhaus, district Hagenow
- Wehningen (only district), district Ludwigslust
- Zarrentin-strands, district Hagenow
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