Altefeld Update, by Don Giorgi
I went back there this past summer (1998) - The St.Georg Hotel is
there, and so is the haus, however its up for sale having gone the a number
of owners -the ops barn is still standing but the roof has caved in and
its not in use. Nothing much else has changed -
From: "Don Giorgi" <dgiorgi@prodigy.net> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:30:21
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Dean - just looked some more of
the Altefeld photos Dave Hughes aka "spook" was a character - a bunch of
us were down at the border playing with the vopo/russian guards in the
tower - we'd walk up to the fence, they'd come down the tower ladder-they
got tired of it after a while and we started to leave - we were a bout
30 yards away when Dave turned and ran to the border and started climbing
the fence - the guards came down like the tower was on fire - running down
the strip on their side of the fence We beat our buns up the hill and hid
in the bushes - fortunately after about 20 minutes of looking for us they
gave up and went back to their home away from home.
Dave also had a couple of complete
fencing gear and started teaching some of us to fence His favorite stroke
was to rap you on the head so that the ball at the end of the eppee would
snap down and hit you right between the shoulder blades.
Slade and I were on the same trick and went on leave together to Rome,Capri,Nice
Monte Carlo etc. Publicover & I were both on the house basketball team
- Had some great times playing at the Bundesgroenshutz (spelling?) in Eschwege
Regards Don