Through Embassies for a Freedom : Events of East German Exodus in 1989

Abstract

In 1989, thousands of East German citizens flooded the cities of Budapest, Prague and Warsaw. Relatively well-known partial chapters of East German exodus during the year 1989 are set up to a geographic and time synthesis of those events, which significantly contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and to the end of the Cold War.

Keywords

• Inter-German Relations
• Deutschlandpolitik
• Billion-Loan in 1983 and 1984
• Gera Claims
• Honecker’s Visit of the FRG
• East-German Emigration
• Fall of the Berlin Wall