Budování ženijnětechnického zajištění v úseku 12. plánské pohraniční brigády
Construction of engineering arrangements in the area of the 12th Planá Border Guard brigade

Author(s): Pavel Vaněk
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Security and defense, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: 20th century; 50s; engineering measures; 12th Border Guard; Planá; security; couriers; smugglers;
Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the process of construction of so called engineering measures in the area of one of the Border Guard brigades – the 12th Border Guard brigade whose command was in Planá. It discusses the different types of measures: trap lights, control zone, clearings, three-wall barricade and its electrification and mining. The construction started in the second half of the year 1951. The time schedule of the action proved the work was done in haste. Many tasks had to be performed again, either due to a partial destruction of the barrier walls after trunks and stumps had been pulled out from the inside of the wired barricade or after mines had spontaneously exploded. We can conclude that the so called engineering measures were completed by the end of 1953, though not entirely without problems in the forest parts.

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