About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting all restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. Pressed on when the new ...
Germany names “the global security situation ... seeking a “time of reflection” on opening the East-West German border. As the exodus from Eastern Europe accelerated, the European ...
About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting all restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. Pressed on when the new ...
The offhand comment — that East Germany was opening the Berlin Wall and the heavily fortified border with West Germany — led Reimold to type out what has become his iconic alert ...