The desertion of Alois Bodor from the Nový Žďár company (1953). Corrective instructions from the Border Guard commander, Brigadier General Ludvík Hlaváček (8)

The desertion of Alois Bodor from the Nový Žďár company (1953). Corrective instructions from the Border Guard commander, Brigadier General Ludvík Hlaváček (9)

The desertion of Alois Bodor from the Nový Žďár company (1953). Corrective instructions from the Border Guard commander, Brigadier General Ludvík Hlaváček (10)

The events of August 1968. An order from Aš garrison commander, Lieutenant Colonel Miroslav Tomeš, from 7 September 1968 (1)

The events of August 1968. An order from Aš garrison commander, Lieutenant Colonel Miroslav Tomeš, from 7 September 1968 (2)

The events of August 1968. An order from Aš garrison commander, Lieutenant Colonel Miroslav Tomeš, from 7 September 1968 (3)

The events of August 1968. An order from Aš garrison commander, Lieutenant Colonel Miroslav Tomeš, from 7 September 1968 (4)

The events of August 1968. An order from Aš garrison commander, Lieutenant Colonel Miroslav Tomeš, from 7 September 1968 (5)

Dubina (Eichelberg) on the service map of the BG. 1950s

Transmission towers on the Austrian boarder that Robert Ospald used for his escape

Robert Ospald climbing up the transmission tower

Ospald and Pohl stand under the transmission tower with their trolleys

Ospald and Pohl in a corn field by the border.

Ospald and Pohl at Kleinhaugsdorf, the first village on the Austrian side of the border they encountered

Robert Ospald with the trolley he hung from the high-voltage power line and used as a slider

Robert Ospald, a portrait from the time of the escape

Robert Ospald today

Present photo after interwiev

Photography from 2012

One of the 18 villages inhabited by the deportees in Bărăgan

The Caraiman Family - photo from the deportation in Bărăgan

Ileana Mateescu's father together with her brother

The Deportees' Cemetry in Rubla, Bărăgan

Haselberger (on the right-hand side) with his grandmother and a cousin

Haselberger, November 2013