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 ...

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 ...

As spokesman for the East German Politburo, Mr. Schabowksi casually declared the Berlin Wall open in 1989. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

At the last meeting of the East German Politburo, then Deputy Premier Fred Oelssner. whom Ulbricht put in charge of production and distribution of consumer goods in 1955, bluntly declared that as ...

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, has ...

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. A Politburo member ...

The ruling contrasted with convictions last November in similar cases involving Egon Krenz, the last communist East German leader and the man in charge when the Wall opened on Nov. 9, 1989, as well as ...

East Germany’s beleaguered Communist Party elected a new ruling Politburo on Wednesday but it had only four new faces and appeared unlikely to win the broad acceptance necessary to end 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 ...

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 ...