Former East German bureaucrat Guenter Schabowski, who died Sunday aged 86, went down in history for a slip of the tongue in 1989 that inadvertently brought down the Berlin Wall. The former spokesman ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - It's not often that a historic announcement comes, as an afterthought, almost by accident, at the end of an otherwise stultifying tedious press conference. But that's how the ...
Douglas Hamilton, the Reuters Chief Correspondent for the Balkans, covered the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the following story, he recalls the momentous events of November 9, 1989. Sign up ...
Between 1951 and 1955, roughly 1.5 million East Germans moved west while around 300,000 traveled in the opposite direction. The GDR responded by constructing the Berlin Wall in 1961, eventually ...
Münster – Das Geheimnis um den berühmten Notizzettel von SED-Politbüromitglied Günter Schabowski für seine Pressekonferenz vom 9. November 1989, auf der er voreilig die Öffnung der DDR-Grenzen ...
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