Easter weekend, marked the first holiday in nearly 40 years that Germans were free to visit family on the other side of the border separating East Germany from West Germany


Thursday 12th April 1990

Easter weekend, marked the first holiday in nearly 40 years that Germans were free to visit family on the other side of the border separating East Germany from West Germany. Though traffic was heavy throughout the weekend, the 18-million-car backup reported at the border on this day holds the Guinness World Record for most cars in a traffic jam.


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