How the Berlin Wall accidentally fell
University of Southern California international relations professor Mary Elise Sarotte explains the rapid and accidental succession of events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Many East German leaders were occupied in meetings or abroad when Guenter Schabowski, a member of the Politboro, sleepily misstated new travel regulations that did not in fact change border policy at the Wall -- a change that was interpreted by Western reporters, then by East Germans, to mean the Wall had in fact opened.
Washington Post, The | 11/01
This story published in UN Wire on 11/02/2009
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