"...locals usually needed special permission to enter what later became known as Die Verbotene Stadt – the Forbidden City.
“There were also illegal ways in,” says Naumann, who remembers how soldiers were bribed by East German consumers to be allowed in to shop at the new miniature city’s stores. “There were some things you couldn’t get outside. A lot was cheap, because the Soviets didn’t pay VAT. So cigarettes were cheap, schnapps was cheap.
“You could get in but, of course you had to be careful to be back out again punctually. So if you went in in the morning you had to be out by around 4pm at the latest. Anyone who missed it had bad luck. You’d be held for 24 hours and made to peel potatoes for the troops.”"
Horrifying Search and Rescue Stories | "Im a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service.." - A couple of these seem to fit in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhkgXOUDetc
09:17:41 26 July 2019
