President Sarkozy posted a story on his Facebook page describing how he "rushed to Berlin on November 9, 1989 and crossed through Checkpoint Charlie on the first day the gates opened." A photograph of Sarkozy taking a pickaxe to the wall is included with the moving account.

Monumental as that may have been, some French journalists are calling it a rewriting of history and said, "The man prepared to make history cannot miss a historic moment. The problem is that the history they are telling us doesn't stand up."

Historians claim that no one even knew that the Berlin Wall was about to fall on November 9th, and that "West Berlin didn't begin to attack the wall until the following day, the 10th."

A further look into archives by pro-Sarkozy newspaper Le Figaro states that Alain Juppe, pictured with the pickaxe-wielding Sarkozy in the Facebook picture supposedly shot on November 9th, was actually in France on November 9th at the annual memorial service for General de Gaulle in France, not arriving in Berlin until November 16th.

If this story unfolds, the repercussions of spinning such a false tale could land Sarkozy in hot water. The picture has already received 1,296 comments and 3,766 peole have chosen the "like" button.

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