Then German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (L) and his Czech counterpart Jiri Dienstbier cut through the barbed wire at the Czech-Bavarian border in Rozvadov on December 23, 1989. A German ...

A German holidaymaker visiting the Czech Republic with his family was arrested because his name remained on a police list, more than 40 years after he fled from the communist East Germany via ...