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Did Bruce Springsteen help bring down the Berlin Wall? Historians look back and say the singer's 1988 concert may have helped things along. IE 11 is not supported.

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1989, an unremarkable East German functionary named Günter Schabowski bungled an assignment—and accidentally helped bring down the Berlin Wall.

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Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is pictured during his "tear down this wall" speech in West Berlin, Germany, on June 12, 1987. The speech resurfaced on Tuesday with news of the death of former ...

He said he was 15 years old and he grew up in Rostock, a city in East Germany, and he said, ‘You really had something to do with bringing down the wall.’ I said, ‘No, I didn’t.