Epoch Times - Berlin Wall Memories: A Timeline from 1945 to the Fall of the Soviet Union

Epoch Times - Berlin Wall Memories: A Timeline from 1945 to the Fall of the Soviet Union: "1989 AUG. 19—During a peace demonstration in the Hungarian town of Sopron, the border with Austria is symbolically opened for three hours, called the “Pan-European Picnic.” Up to 600 East Germans fled as border guards disobeyed instructions and failed to intervene."