8 After East German refugees learned about the Pan-European Picnic from posters and fliers, hundreds arrived at the location and stormed through the border fence into Austria. 9 An East German ...

East and West German citizens celebrate as they climb ... D.C. The poles of a new fence on the border with Croatia are set up near Beremend, Hungary, September 21. The poles of a new fence on ...

Starting on the East German side, there was a fence specifically ... May 1989: Communist Hungary began tearing down its own border fence with Austria. A couple of months later, the respective ...

the East German government put up a wooden fence through the community. Over the next 14 years, East Germany gradually increased the border fortifications through and around Mödlareuth ...

As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier. The fence follows the border like a giant ...

East German border policemen, right, refuse to shake hands with a Berliner who stretches out his hand over the border fence at the eastern site nearby Checkpoint Charlie border crossing point ...

when they set off an alarm at the steel fence during their approach toward the wall. Gueffroy was fatally shot by East German border guards. His friend Christian Gaudian was injured and taken to ...

During the time we were deployed to Europe near the East/West German border espionage was the national ... a barbed wire topped, chain link fence, a carefully raked pea-gravel kill-zone with ...

He kept a piece of the border fence as a souvenir. Jörg Meissner, another former East German citizen, told Spiegel news website he had heard about the picnic plan about six weeks before ...

He kept a piece of the border fence as a souvenir. Jörg Meissner, another former East German citizen, told Spiegel news website, external he had heard about the picnic plan about six weeks before ...