The venue of the so-called Pan-European Picnic held on 19 August 1989 near Sopron, Hungary where dozens of East-Germans could first freely cross the border to the West.
The venue of the so-called Pan-European Picnic held on 19 August 1989 near Sopron, Hungary where dozens of East-Germans could first freely cross the border to the West.
The site where the Iron Curtain first fell was 6 km to the east. where Austria's then foreign minister Alois Mock and his Hungarian counterpart Gyula Horn had together cut through the border fence.