Asked by wholemelt

What happened when Hungary opened its borders?

West Germans began to move to Hungary.
Hungarians fled for East and West Germany.
Germans fought over Hungarian territory.
Thousands of people left East Germany

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Thousands of people left East Germany.

When Hungary opened its border with Austria in 1989, many East Germans used Hungary as an escape route to the West, contributing to a large exodus that helped precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall.