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The Sinns of the Fatherland

– the 9 – is the German Federal Police’s border protection group. Although it sounds a little like the UK’s Border Force, they are as far removed from the nice people who welcome you back to Dover after a drive back from Le Mans as could be. Founded after the Black September attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics, they are, in effect, a highly specialised paramilitary section of the German Police. Rather than issuing

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