Photo: Antonín Erich Nový, Velvyslanectví SRN v Praze
35 years ago tomorrow, one of the most significant events of the end of the Cold War took place in the garden of the West German Embassy in Prague. The German Foreign Minister at the time, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, stepped onto the balcony of the Lobkowicz Palace and announced to around four thousand East German refugees that they were allowed to travel west to the Federal Republic of Germany.
The news caused a huge wave of joy and relief among the refugees who had been waiting in the embassy garden for weeks in the hope of freedom.
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