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Unfortunately not, i had one friend who was badly beaten up and the Americans lost an officer who was shot and bled to death.
Very sorry indeed to hear that. In the short time I was there the worst that happened was a car getting tail gated by an over-enthusiastic Stasi narc. There were clearly serious risks involved, I had absolutely no doubt that my wife-to-be would have suffered dreadfully had our makeshift and wholly unofficial plan failed. If anything, the East Germans were far more ruthless than the Soviets, in my very limited experience. The Soviets seemed to be playing the game as well as the Brits, but the East Germans were very much a law unto themselves.