On this day, November 1, 2015
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| Günter Schabowski |
It was his words at a press conference in Berlin on November 9, 1989 that led people to head to the Wall. Border guards were confused, phone calls made but it was now impossible to stop the surge of people arriving at the Wall without opening fire. That never happened and the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
Is the world a better place today?
Schabowski moved West, turned against the SED to support the CDU.
Is that what leaders and managers do?
Genuinely change beliefs or always making sure to be on the winning side?
He was born in 1929 in Anklam, then in the Free State of Prussia, now in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Federal Germany.