Word: weinbauer
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...Last week alone some 8,200 fled, raising the total number of refugees over the past five months to 50,000. Some jumped at the opportunity without a moment's hesitation, others agonized over it. "We talked about it way into the night for days on end," said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying for the sake of our relatives or the children or for reasons of security. Then we heard on a West German radio station that the people...
...West since the beginning of the year have done so not out of material desperation or fear of persecution but in blunt renunciation of the East German system. "It is a suffocating place, and we didn't see any chance of the present regime's changing," said Karl Weinbauer as he waited, dirty and cold, in Prague...
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