'Irons Curtains
of the First Kind'

from
French Newsmagazines

- One incident of many :
- a Belgian living in a Belgian enclave in Baerle-Duc is
shot
- by a German guard while talking to his daughter across
the electrified wire.

A war-time map showing the location of the
Belgian enclaves in the Netherlands

- from 'Le Pays de France' : crawling through a barrel to
freedom.
From a
Belgian Magazine Published under German Censorship

The electrified wire runs through an abbey
garden and right next to private houses on the border.

- from a German publication :
- a photo of the electrified wire in a village north of
Antwerp

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