Germany - Lithuania - Poland

Dec. 12, 1958 - Children have to do spy service: The police of the east-zone of Germany ordered some 8 to 12 years old boys of east - Berlin to do spy service at the zone-border in Berlin to buy western-papers at te newspaper kiosk at the Bernauer-Wollinerstreet. Further the boys get a reward of 50 pennies when they can tell the east-zone police which people of east-Berlin buy newspapers there and return then to east-Berlin. Photo Shows: The newspaper-kiosk at the corner of the Wolliner and Bernauerstreet where the west-Berlin was forced on Dec. 1th to arrest a 8 and a 9 years old boy doing spy services. Upper picture shows: A group of little boys marching through the Stalin-allee on Nov. 30th at the 10th anniversary of splitting up Berlin into West and east

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Doing East-berlin East-zone Forced Further Kiosk Newspapers Ordered Pennies Reward Splitting Tell West-berlin

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