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The picture shows GDR cars which have been broken open in a forest near the 'Green Border' of Hungary and Austria in summer 1989. Thousands of refugees took refuge at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Budapest in spring and summer 1989. After the embassy was closed due to overcrowding, reception camps were opened. Thousands of tourists from the GDR took advantage of the beginning dismantling of the barbed wire fences on Hungary's western border and fled to West Germany. Photo: Ulrich Haessler (KEYSTONE/DPA/Ulrich Hässler)