8 After East German refugees learned about the Pan-European Picnic from posters and fliers, hundreds arrived at the location and stormed through the border fence into Austria. 9 An East German ...

East and West German citizens celebrate as they climb ... D.C. The poles of a new fence on the border with Croatia are set up near Beremend, Hungary, September 21. The poles of a new fence on ...

Starting on the East German side, there was a fence specifically ... May 1989: Communist Hungary began tearing down its own border fence with Austria. A couple of months later, the respective ...

East German border policemen, right, refuse to shake hands with a Berliner who stretches out his hand over the border fence at the eastern site nearby Checkpoint Charlie border crossing point ...

He kept a piece of the border fence as a souvenir. Jörg Meissner, another former East German citizen, told Spiegel news website he had heard about the picnic plan about six weeks before ...

This allowed the Eastern Bloc of states to shift their own foreign policies, and on May 2, 1989, Hungary dismantled its border fence ... the main East-West German border outside Berlin consisted ...

when they set off an alarm at the steel fence during their approach toward the wall. Gueffroy was fatally shot by East German border guards. His friend Christian Gaudian was injured and taken to ...

He kept a piece of the border fence as a souvenir. Jörg Meissner, another former East German citizen, told Spiegel news website, external he had heard about the picnic plan about six weeks before ...