European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                East and West German Border police meet in a rare Corr Nerce. Rostock " East Germany Wil Tenberge communist guards in watch towers like this help enforce East zone s isolation. Once Busy Trade routes like this rail line end abruptly at the Frontier. By Ernie Weatherall staff writer Bonn is spending millions to help cities that once depended on resources now Cut off by the Iron curtain on the East Border areas great hostile Frontier that divides the German Federal Republic and the communist East zone is causing an eco nomic depression in communities along the West German Side of the zonal Border. This area stretching 800 Miles roughly rom Luebeck on the Baltic sea to hot in Bavaria has been declared a distressed area by the West German government. During the past four years Bonn has pumped nearly $100.000.000 into the area to keep it solvent the East West German Frontier was org Anahy set up As a demarcation line Tor administrative purposes by the four of Cut sting Powerboat in 1946. The soviets turned it into the " Iron curtain with the signing of the european defense Community treaties the frontiers of the soviet zone were sealed tothe West at present there Are Only four author ised Road Crossings seven railway lines and two canals where the East  allow travellers and traffic to soviet zone economically this barbed wire Frontier was a disaster for the communities nearby. Local factories and Small industries were separated from their markets by the in