Witness: The news conference that toppled the Wall

2009/11/04 08:57:19 @Reuters: International News

Volker Warkentin, a correspondent for the German language service in Berlin, has worked for Reuters for 31 years. In the following story, he describes the East German government news conference on travel freedom that unexpectedly led to the opening of the Berlin Wall. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=G0wizu61zHI:38mf7gsXOtg:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=G0wizu61zHI:38mf7gsXOtg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=G0wizu61zHI:38mf7gsXOtg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=G0wizu61zHI:38mf7gsXOtg:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=G0wizu61zHI:38mf7gsXOtg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/G0wizu61zHI" height="1" width="1"/
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