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The press conference was being broadcast live. Within minutes, West German television networks were interrupting their regular programming with breaking news. The anchor on West Germany's ARD network told viewers, live on air, that the East German government had announced the opening of the Wall. East Germans, he said, were free to leave. That broadcast was being received in East Germany. East Germans watching television that evening heard a West German news anchor tell them that the Wall was op