Recorded History

Recorded History

Fall of the Berlin Wall

9 November 1989

On the evening of 9 November 1989, East German official Günter Schabowski told reporters that new travel rules were in effect immediately. He had misread the timing, and the city took him at his word.

An East German announcement of new travel rules led crowds to cross the border that night.

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