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confirms that there were one or two rooms for more unofficial gatherings.
He remembers getting permission to watch Green Ice with Omar Sharif at
the station over Christmas. He explains how he saw the film five times
during the Christmas days (Dominik, 2010, pers. comm. 17 th December). At
the other end of this building were a wet room with six showers and six
sinks located (Figure 90). Adjoining to the shower room was a room with
toilets with seven cubicles and 8 urinals (Figure 91). No space provided for
the private or the individual and probably rather cramped at times with 40
men. It is clear in everything from the layout of the building, the way many
soldiers were forced to share a very limited space, to the uniforms and
uniformity of the way the soldiers were expected to act that there was very
little room left for any personal space.
Figure 89: The inside of a door to
one of the dormitories. Photo:
Anna McWilliams 2011.
Figure 90: Shower room at
Hájenka border guard station.
Photo: Anna McWilliams 2011.
Many of the other buildings within the compound, as well as the basement
of the main station building, were also used for storage as well as garages,
workshops and maintenance. Some of these buildings are used by the park
rangers today for storage and to carry out maintenance. The majority of
building two would have been used as workshops but to the eastern end of
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