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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall as they watch East German border guards demolish a section of the wall on Nov. 11, 1989. AFP via Getty Images ...

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 ...

Mayor Eberhard Diepgen pardoned two former East German Politburo members yesterday who were jailed for ordering the shooting of escapers along the Berlin Wall. In a gesture timed to mark a decade ...

Seven Volvo stretch limousines once used by former Communist East Germany's politburo are up for auction at a fraction of their original price after being left virtually untouched for 13 years.

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 ...