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stumbled upon this fascinating old video explaining how to behave while driving from West Germany to West Berlin as a British(?) tourist in 1989. were they having to maintain a polite fiction they were Allied military personnel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUJ7GbxWGoM
maybe not tourists, but it's pretty clear they were hiding something about the identities of the people travelling
diplomatic personnel?
@hikari this is for military travelers, as the treaty with the USSR at the end of the second world war granted military personnel of the allies specific privileges (transiting East Germany without customs inspection)
civilian travelers to West Berlin had to do different paperwork and use different lanes at the checkpoints
@hikari to this day, travel documents for military travelers are at least a bit weird, even if they arrive by normal means, and are usually governed by treaties known as "Status of Forces Agreements"