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In this Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019 photo, Frieder Reimold the former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press' German service talks to AP reporter Kirsten Grieshaber during an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany. On Nov. 9, 1989, Frieder Reimold was the AP staffer who sent out the iconic AP news alert, &quot;DDR oeffnet Grenze,&quot; or &quot;East Germany opens border&quot; that further accelerated events that night. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday Nov. 12, 1989 file photo, West German policeman, left, gives a helping hand to an East German border guard who climbs through a gap of the Berlin Wall when East Germany opened another passage at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

AP’s story on the day the Wall fell

By NESHA STARCEVIC - Associated Press