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This happened to me, in East Germany. I'm sorry it happens now in the Land of the Free.
by mzs 11mo ago
This happened to me, in East Germany. I'm sorry it happens now in the Land of the Free.
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- nxobject 11mo agoI've always wanted to ask people who lived in East Germany: what similarities and differences do you see with the modern American surveillance infrastructure?
- layer8 11mo agoParent commenter probably didn’t live in East Germany, it’s the visitors’ cars that were searched.
- mzs 11mo agoYes, I’m Polish American and was traveling from West Germany to Poland. It wasn’t so bad once we bribed them. It turned-out the guards just wanted Marlboros, Johnny Walker, and US dollars. We still had to reassemble the Mercedes.
- hackermolly 11mo agoThat's absolute bullshit. The police in Germany need a search warrant to take your car apart. Unless you give them permission to do so.
- defrost 11mo agoGerman border police and Customs (Zoll) have a right to stop and search within 50 km of the border.
- stefanka 11mo agoThey refer to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) that likely had different rules
- 0_____0 11mo agoYes, I recall that the GDR exhibited some minor differences from its neighbor across the wall.
- yread 11mo agoPolice in Germany regularly pulls regular coach service aside to some warehouse and searches in detail everyone's posessions on them. It tends to happen close to borders but not necessarily. It happened to me close to xmas in 2008, people had to unwrap their christmas gifts... I try to fly instead since. Border police are no joke