BERLIN — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, ...
The BBC's Brian Hanrahan reports on Gunther Schabowksi's Politburo announcement - from 9 November 1989 A senior East German official whose impromptu announcement at a news conference led to the demise ...
In late 1989, history took a sharp, unplanned turn. By most accounts, it happened because of Guenter Schabowski. Meeting the media after weeks of pro-democracy protests, the spokesman for the ...
Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Too often, we see history as inevitable. What was had to be, the culmination of seemingly tectonic ...
Günter Schabowski, a senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Nov. 1 in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN (Reuters) - Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died aged 86, German media reported on Sunday.