July 5, 2011

EU, Austria mourn death of Otto Habsburg < German news | Expatica Germany

EU, Austria mourn death of Otto Habsburg < German news | Expatica Germany
An ardent anti-Communist, he also organised in August 1989 the now-famous "Pan-European picnic" in Sopron, Hungary, during which some 700 East Germans were able to escape to the West, just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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