2003-07-06
... ? Germany in June: the 1953 uprising in national memory Wolfgang Schuller - openDemocracyThe popular revolt for freedom and reunification across East Germany in June 1953 was crushed by state violence. These convulsive events had regional, national, and international dimensions that are only now being fully registered in German historical and popular memory. Are the June days trauma or triumph, national wound or source of pride? And to whom do they belong?
