ABSTRACT
With the disintegration of Communist control in Eastern Europe, and the inability of the Soviet Union to influence its former satellites, border controls were ignored and refugees fled westward. On 5 August 1990 the United Nations High Commission for Refugees announced that 1,300,000 people had left Eastern Europe for the West. Of these, than 400,000 were officially granted asylum in Western Europe. The main flight of East Germans was through Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria, to refugee reception centres in Bavaria. The map shows the numbers of refugees from Eastern Europe granted official asylum durig 1990
