A Schoolboy of Eiskeller
Erwin Schabe lived in Eiskeller while he was a schoolboy. His surviving story presents the exclave’s unusual situation through the everyday experience of a young resident.
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Erwin Schabe
As a Berlin schoolboy in 1961, Erwin Schabe was escorted through Eiskeller’s narrow access corridor by a British armored vehicle.
Erwin Schabe was a schoolboy who lived in Eiskeller, a Berlin exclave. His story became bound to the unusual geography of the place and the practical difficulties of reaching it. A British armored escort along its narrow access corridor in 1961 made his journey an enduring human detail in Eiskeller’s history.
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An Armored School Escort
In 1961, a British armored vehicle escorted Schabe along the route connecting Eiskeller. An ordinary school journey thus became an extraordinary episode.
The Eiskeller Exclave
Schabe’s story is tied directly to the Eiskeller Exclave in Berlin. Its narrow access corridor was the setting for the British armored escort that accompanied him in 1961.
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Lived here
The Eiskeller Exclave
As a schoolboy living in Eiskeller, he was escorted along the exclave's narrow access corridor by a British armored vehicle in 1961.
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