German governments even paid millions of dollars to the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu to allow ethnic Germans to leave Romania.

Since the war, with few exceptions, Germany has allowed only ethnic Germans to immigrate.

Events at 'little-Berlin' essentially meant that Finnish forces in the area lost a whole day and allowed Germans to marshal their forces.

Deploying small numbers of tanks would therefore cause the Allies to lose the element of surprise, allowing Germans to develop countermeasures.

Since the 1980s the Soviet and Russian governments have allowed ethnic Germans to emigrate to Germany.

He made the decision in 1989 to allow about 20,000 East Germans to cross from Hungary into Austria, a move that helped precipitate the fall of the Berlin wall.

It is about what formed that mind, which allowed ordinary Germans, almost all, to acquiesce in the slaughter of the Jews, and led many to become uncoerced executioners themselves.

The trip was an annual excursion organized through steamship agent Leopold Neumann to allow midwestern Germans to visit their homeland.

But Mr. Honecker sowed other seeds of his overthrow in 1987 and 1988, allowing eight million East Germans to visit relatives in West Germany.

East German property laws allow former or present East Germans whom the Communists deprived of their property to file claims on homes, factories and industrial sites until next Jan. 31.