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, ...

A former East German Politburo member says the decision last October to oust Erich Honecker as head of state was a far bolder and riskier action than opening the Berlin Wall. ”We had to give ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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BERLIN — Günter-Schabowski, the former East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the border between East and West Berlin when responding to a reporter's question, ...

BERLIN – After months of overtime writing about upheaval and protests in East Germany, AP’s Frieder Reimold settled in on Nov. 9, 1989, to watch a televised evening briefing by Guenter Schabowski, a ...

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2004 file photo former member of the East German Politburo Guenter Schabowski talks to media in Bernau, near Berlin, Germany. Schabowski, whose cryptic announcement that the ...