Very kind, Olaf, thank you!

Thank you! ☺️ I've been hibernating in order to finish writing my thesis 🙏

Thank you! Very surprised to find them.

Wow!!!

One of the historical sites I would’ve absolutely loved to have seen in its hay day!

Merry Christmas to you too, Ian!

Don’t, I’m already resisting purchasing Empire: Total War for my phone 😆

A good one, this! I watched it a few weeks ago. I particularly like the Volksmarine footage.

I’ve got this on my phone- it’s so good and I really like being able to follow the history too!

I keep mine in a mixture of A4 plastic wallets, card folders, and photograph albums with non-adhesive pages. Probably not the best mixture, but it’s all I can manage at the moment.

I haven't, no, but will give it a watch! I watched another recently on the Grenzaufklärer, who patrolled the Inner-German Border. Easy to see through the propaganda and a fascinating insight into the DDR's perception of their security.

No problem!

I’ve been looking at all kinds of DDR transit visas and none of them seem to have dates. Only visas for the DDR itself seem to have dates. I reckon there was some way of knowing by the issue codes on the stamps, and imagine the Stasi had such a system to keep an eye on those transiting.