September 15, 2009

BBC NEWS | Europe | How Hungary let East Germans go

BBC NEWS | Europe | How Hungary let East Germans go: "'It was in Hungary that the first stone was removed from the Berlin Wall,' said the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

His successor Angela Merkel went to the Hungarian town of Sopron on Wednesday, to thank the country for opening its border 20 years ago. That decision led to the fall of the Wall three months later."

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