Gareth Dale’s “Popular Protest in East Germany, 1945-1989” (Routledge, 2005) is proving to be an extremely helpful resource as I try to gain a better understanding of political protest in contemporary Germany – protest as represented in the stickers I’ve collected in Berlin and Munich since 2003. In particular, he describes the mass uprising of June 17, 1953, that started in East Berlin and moved rapidly to over 700 cities throughout East Germany. Half a million to a million workers protested; 1,000 workplaces were stopped. Ultimately, by the end of the day (one day!), Soviet tanks, 20,000 Soviet soldiers, and…
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