Otto von Habsburg: Last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary who later championed European unification - Obituaries, News - The Independent
Along with his Hungarian counterpart, Imre Pozsgay, he organised a peace protest, the Pan-European Picnic, near St Margarethen, Austria, and the town of Sopron in western Hungary on 19 August 1989. In a symbolic gesture agreed to by both countries, the border was opened for three hours and more than 600 East Germans fled to the West. This momentary penetration of the Iron Curtain became one of the events that hastened the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of Communism.
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