There were two tiny shifts of Germany's Western border with the Netherlands
after W.W.II. One shift happened at the village of Tüddern near Arnhem. It was
part of the Netherlands as Tudderen for about a decade or so. It was handed
back for free to West-Germany in the 1960s I believe. Anyway it costed Germany
many millions of DM in loss of tax and duties.
Hundreds of truck loaded with high taxed goods drove into Tudderen and parked
the day before the event. When the drivers woke up next morning the border had
passed them and they were in Tüddern, West-Germany, and drove on without paying
1 Pfennig in tax and duties.
Ferdi.
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Ferdi Stutterheim,
Drachten, Netherlands.
Op 11 aug. 2020, om 12:51 heeft Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx> het
volgende geschreven:
The history of the Eastern European borders is a complex and
fascinating one. My father's family was from Austria-Hungary, whose
borders have shifted many, many times.
