This was a celebration of more open relationships between east and west, near Sopron, but on the Austrian side of the border. The border was temporarily opened at 3 pm, and 700-900 East Germans, who had travelled there after being tipped off, rushed across, without intervention from Hungarian border guards. The West German government was already prepared for the mass escape, and trains and coaches were ready to take the escapees from Vienna to Giessen, near Frankfurt, where a refugee reception centre was waiting for the new arrivals.[1][2]