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  2. Fall of the inner German border - Wikipedia

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    Here, visitors are queueing to enter East Germany on 23 December 1989. Long queues of cars waiting to cross the Wartha border crossing into West Germany on 10 November 1989, a day after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The East German government eventually sought to defuse the situation by relaxing the country's border controls.

  3. Inner German border - Wikipedia

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    The East German government sought to defuse the situation by relaxing the country's border controls with effect from 10 November 1989; [165] the announcement was on the evening of 9 November 1989 by Politburo member Günter Schabowski at a somewhat chaotic press conference in East Berlin, who proclaimed the new control regime as liberating the ...

  4. Bornholmer Straße border crossing - Wikipedia

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    Immediately after news of East Germany's somewhat mistaken announcement on the removal of border controls by Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) official Günter Schabowski was broadcast at 8:00pm on 9 November 1989, [1] thousands of East Germans began gathering at the Bornholmer Straße border crossing, demanding that border guards immediately open its gates to let them through to West Berlin.

  5. Fall of the Berlin Wall - Wikipedia

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    3) Permanent exits are possible via all East German border crossings to West Germany and (West) Berlin. 4) This decision revokes the temporary practice of issuing (travel) authorizations through East German consulates and permanent exit with only an East German personal identity card via third countries ceases.

  6. East Germany - Wikipedia

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    East Germany (German: ... The impetus for this exodus of East Germans was the removal of the electrified fence along Hungary's border with Austria on 2 May 1989.

  7. List of deaths at the Berlin Wall - Wikipedia

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    In February 1989, Chris Gueffroy was the last person shot trying to escape East Germany; he was not, however, the last to die escaping. On 8 March 1989, Winfried Freudenberg became the last person to die in an attempt to escape from East Germany to West Berlin. Freudenberg fell from a hot-air balloon while trying to fly over the Berlin Wall.

  8. History of East Germany - Wikipedia

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    East Germany's political and economic system reflected ... establishing the Oder-Neisse line as a "border of ... 1989, more than 13,000 East Germans managed to escape ...

  9. Former officer with East Germany’s secret police sentenced to ...

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    East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961, preventing most of its citizens from traveling to the West. Many tried to escape by tunneling under it, swimming past it, climbing or flying over it. At least 140 people died in the attempt. The heavily fortified border was opened on Nov. 9, 1989, a key moment in the collapse of communism in Europe.