Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some refugees said East Germans caught bypolice were detained, then released elsewhere...
...More East Germans, however, were reportedcrossing the border from Czechoslovakia tocommunist Hungary and entering Austria fromHungary...
Hungary's official news agency, MTI, said 2880people entered Hungary from Czechoslovakia overthe weekend, most of them East Germans. It said 24people swam the Danube between Rajka and Esztergomto cross into Austria...
Newly arrived East Germans at the Giessen, WestGermany, refugee reception center said yesterdaythey had been prepared to stay indefinitely inBonn's mud-filled embassy in Prague rather thanreturn home...
...would have never gone back to East Germany,this was it," said Heinz Schmidt, a railway workerfrom Magdeburg who spent eight days in a tent withhis wife and teen...