Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SCHIRNDING, West Germany--Thousands of young East German refugees rolled into West Germany at the rate of more than 100 an hour yesterday, causing a traffic jam that stretched several miles back into Czechoslovakia...
...East German Ambassador Helmut Ziebart urged his fellow citizens to seek legal emigration in East Germany, rather than go through other countries. But many complained that it takes years for such requests to be granted...
East Germany has agreed to allow East Germans at the embassy and at the West German Embassy in Warsaw to renounce their citizenship and go to West Germany, which automatically gives them a new passport and assistance in starting a new life...
...East German diplomats are processing only about 100 people a day in Prague, and more than 1000 are still waiting in the West German Embassy in Warsaw...
...West German coaches were used to ferry the processed East Germans to the Czech border with Bavaria at Waidhaus. Some East Germans who boarded a bus yesterday appeared rather drunk, witnesses said...