FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2004 file photo former member of the East German Politburo Guenter Schabowski talks to media in Bernau, near Berlin, Germany. Schabowski, whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, has died, his widow Irina Schabowski tells the German news agency dpa. He was 86 and died in a Berlin nursing home on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, file)
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