cyberneticSatan
cyberneticSatan t1_je1gljk wrote
Reply to comment by BrockChocolate in My German parents 30 years ago today on vacation in the Netherlands by LonnieYo
Would also be pretty impossible for them to leave East Germany and go to a western country
cyberneticSatan t1_je1i3xb wrote
Reply to comment by BrockChocolate in My German parents 30 years ago today on vacation in the Netherlands by LonnieYo
You're talking about the timeframe between November 9, 1989 and October 3, 1990, during which the GDR was unravelling itself very quickly. But before that, there was pretty much no chance for regular East Germans to vacation in the Netherlands.