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Article: EAST GERMANS CROSS CZECH BORDER INTO WEST
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1989
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MARKTREDWITZ, West Germany - Thousands of East Germans
poured into this border town yesterday after Czechoslovakia opened
the floodgates for refugees who have abandoned hope of a better
life in their communist homeland.
The break came late Friday when it was announced that East
German officials had agreed to let their ally Czechoslovakia open
its western frontier to people pouring in from East Germany.
"The people back there have just given up hope," Olaf
Acksteiner, a 27-year-old from Cottbus, told reporters after
arriving on the first train carrying refugees from Prague.
The mostly young, skilled workers continue to leave their
country despite the removal of hard-line leader ...