As West Germany debated last week whether it should have an army, East Germany was unmasking one.
Five thousand jackbooted, blue-uniformed toughs swarmed into the border districts to put down disturbances by farmers trying to save their homes as the Reds bulldozed a three-mile-deep isolation corridor between East and West Germany. The blue-uniformed men, part of a 100,000-man force, are called the People's Police (Volkspolizei, or Vopos, for short).
Escaped East Germans have given West German interrogators a thorough picture of the Vopos. Aside from the occasional guarding of Red army arsenals,...
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