Germany Increases Soldiers for Enforcement at Eastern Border

On December 10, 1992, it was announced that the German Interior Ministry is planning to increase checks at the border with Poland, and the Czech and Slovak Republics by allocating 2,000 Bundeswehr soldiers for border support. The same number of officials are needed in the Federal Border Police in the area of the Presidium East, where the largest number of illegal immigrants arrive. At this border, the BGS detailed almost 20,000 illegal immigrants during the first half of the year of an estimated 100,000 illegal migrants entering Germany over this border…[more]