Wire of Death

The Wire of Death was a lethal electric fence created by the German military to control the Dutch–Belgian frontier after the occupation of Belgium during the First World War.The name 'Wire of Death' is an English rendition of one of its popular Dutch names, Dodendraad, which literally means "Deathswire". As the war continued and more and more victims fell to the electric fence it became known as simply De Draad meaning "The Wire". To the German authorities it was officially known as the Grenzhochspannungshindernis . Parallels have been made between the 'Death Wire' and the later Iron Curtain.

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