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World Service,3 mins

How a verbal slip triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall

Newshour

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Günter Schabowski, the former East German government spokesman whose blunder at a televised news conference in 1989 helped trigger the fall of the Berlin Wall, has died. The Âé¶¹Éç's David Shukman was at that conference and talks about how events unfolded. (Photo Berlin Wall Credit: AFP/Getty)

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