East Germany Using More Dogs at Border
Associated Press
BONN —
East Germany has sent more attack dogs to its mined and fenced border with West Germany to stop people trying to reach the West, the Bonn government said Tuesday.
The nearly 1,300 dogs appear to be the replacement for nearly 60,000 automatic shrapnel-firing weapons that were dismantled last year by the East Germans, the Interior Ministry said in its annual report on West Germany’s borders. There were 235 more dogs on the East German border in 1984 than in 1983, the report said.
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