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Article: EXODUS BUILDS TO WEST GERMANY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1989
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PASSAU, West Germany - Crammed into sputtering sedans and
cheering their new freedom, thousands of East Germans reached West
Germany yesterday in a historic exodus permitted by the
reform-minded Communist government in Hungary.
More than 2,000 refugees had made the journey from Hungary to
Austria and then to the West German state of Bavaria in the
morning, with hundreds more streaming in later in the day. News
reports said the total could top 10,000.
It was the greatest flood of East German refugees since 1961,
the year that East Germany built the Berlin Wall to halt the
outward flow.
"I decided on escaping 27 years ago, and today it worked.
It's a feeling that's just tops, ...