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For those who aren’t xenophobic dinosaurs there was a particular magic to driving across multiple open borders in Europe and feeling part of it all. Impossible for Brexiters to understand I guess.
The old East German border crossing Checkpoint Alpha at Helmstedt–Marienborn, now abandoned but visitable with a small museum. There were four of these mobile crash barriers each able to stop a speeding lorry.
When you arrived at the crossing your passport was sent along these conveyor belts and checked by the Stasi. It was a very threatening place - not possible to capture the atmosphere now.
Anyone who passed through this border during the Cold War will remember the feeling you had as you approached it. Difficult to believe it was such a short time ago. It is easy to forget how precious an open and inclusive Europe is.
