Hungary And The Reunification Of Germany - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009: "The turning point was the so-called Pan-European Picnic organized by Hungarian opposition parties on August 19, 1989, at the Austrian-Hungarian border. It was originally meant only as a symbolic meeting between Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians: a call for a Europe where borders can be crossed easily.
At 3 p.m. a temporary gate was to be opened in what was still a border fence made of barbed wire. But at that point a crowd of East German refugees charged the barbed-wire fence and forced their way through to the West."
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