Pan-EU picnic marks beginning of the Iron Curtain's fall

On the 19th of August 1989, hundreds of East German citizens holidaying in Hungary rushed across the border into Austria, while the guards turned their backs.

Pan-EU picnic marks beginning of the Iron Curtain's fall

It's 25 years since the first break in the Iron Curtain which divided Europe during the Cold War.

 

On the 19th of August 1989, hundreds of East German citizens holidaying in Hungary rushed across the border into Austria, while the guards turned their backs.

 

Three months later the Berlin Wall fell.

 

As Kerry Skyring reports from the border, what's known as the "Pan-European picnic" drew crowds who remembered the drama of 1989.