Several hundred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" id="mwAVE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="East Germany">East Germans</a> cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic" id="mwAVI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pan-European Picnic">Pan-European Picnic</a>, part of the events that began the process of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall" id="mwAVM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fall of the Berlin Wall">Fall of the Berlin Wall</a>.