DW World Stories July 12, 2024
With the levitated factories and parts of its towns and cities still looking war torn a growing number of people now wanted not only to travel abroad but to leave the country for good in hungary also part of the communist eastern bloc the border to austria was briefly opened in september 1909 and they willing thousands of east germans to flee to the west. Its. Meanwhile thousands more were seeking refuge in the west German Embassy in the czechoslovakia capital krog as communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the cold war itself appeared to be close to an end. But many stayed behind in the hope ...