However, this still left thousands of
people demanding to be let through“as Schabowski said we can.”.
Schabowski sat frozen before giving a rambling statement
about the Wall being tied to the larger disarmament question.
Schabowski had not been involved in the discussions about the new regulations
and had not been fully updated.
Amid several questions at once, Schabowski expressed surprise that the reporters had not yet seen this law,
and started reading from the note.
In 2009, Ehrman claimed that a member of the Central Committee had called him and
urged him to ask about the travel law during the press conference, but Schabowski called that absurd.
Schabowski gave a confusing answer that asserted it was
necessary because West Germany had exhausted its capacity to accept fleeing East Germans, then date the note berlin had been given berlin added that a new law had been drafted to allow permanent emigration at any border crossing.
Schabowski gave a confused answer that asserted it was
necessary because West Germany had exhausted its capacity to accept fleeing East Germans, then remembered the note he had been given and added that a new law had been drafted to allow permanent emigration at any border crossing.