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5: CASE STUDY 2: THE CZECH/AUSTRIAN BORDER<br />
The Šafov border guard station has a similar setup to that at Hájenka with<br />
division of areas for private and official use. Here there was, however,<br />
somewhat less of a division between the sleeping quarters and the many<br />
storage areas both housed in the same wing of the main building. An extra<br />
storage section was added to this wing at a later stage. In one of these<br />
storage rooms there are traces left of wire fencing within the room which<br />
suggests that this was an extra secure storage area, possibly for weapons. In<br />
the soldiers’ bathroom at Šafov 31 stickers from tins of shoeshine have been<br />
stuck to the wall together with a handful of stickers from cleaning products<br />
such as toilet cleaner, attesting to the orderly and clean existence expected<br />
by the soldiers (Figure 96).<br />
Figure 96: Two low sinks with stickers from shoe<br />
shine jars and cleaning products stuck to the wall<br />
above at Šafov border guard station.<br />
Photo: Anna McWilliams 2011.<br />
Looking through the photos and drawings posted on the Army Forum one<br />
frequently comes across some sort of ‘graduate drawing’. It appears that<br />
many if not all of the groups of soldiers created one of these drawings when<br />
they finished their service. These types of drawings can be seen as having a<br />
vague similarity with school graduation materials such as yearbooks, signed<br />
T-shirts or school uniforms in which the group identity, friendship and<br />
solidarity are confirmed and often kept as a memento. These drawings are<br />
produced to varying quality, no doubt depending on the artistic skills of the<br />
‘graduating’ soldiers. Usually the drawings include pictures or drawings of<br />
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