Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They began driving across the border at midnight as Hungary removed the frontier barriers to allow more than 7000 East German refugees to escape to the West...
...Hungarian government has chosen to illegally allow East German citizens to travel to West Germany in violation of international treaty," the state news agency ADN said...
...statement yesterday by the official Hungarian news agency MTI said, "Hungary has decided to make it possible for the East German citizens staying in Hungary and refusing to return home to leave to any country which is prepared to let them through or receive them...
Interior Minister Istvan Horvath instructed the police and border guards to let East German citizens leave Hungary with their East German travel documents at any border point...
...evening the government fled Paris, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson invited us to a dinner at the Ritz with Clare Boothe Luce and a collaborator of Polish General Vladislav Sikorski. It was incredibly macabre: the city was two-thirds surrounded by German troops, the sky was lit up with artillery fire, and there, at the Ritz, everything was as it had always been: waiters in tails, the food, the wine. The proprietor asked us to sign his guest book. Years later, I learned from Field Marshal Rommel's chief of staff that he and Rommel were the next...