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The East German uprising of 1953 (German: Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 ) was an uprising that occurred in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 16 to 17 June 1953. It began with strike action by construction workers in East Berlin on 16 June against work quotas during the Sovietization process in East Germany.
The politics of economic decline in East Germany, 1945–1989 (U of North Carolina Press, 2000). Long, Andrew. Berlin in the Cold War: Volume 2: The Berlin Wall 1959–1961 (2021) Major, Patrick, and Jonathan Osmond, eds. The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945–71 (Manchester UP, 2002 ...
East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland [ˈɔstˌdɔʏtʃlant] ⓘ), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʁepuˈbliːk] ⓘ, DDR [ˌdeːdeːˈʔɛʁ] ⓘ), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990.
12 March - 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident; 12 April - Football team Dynamo Dresden was founded. 10 May - The town of Chemnitz, East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt. [1] 16/17 June - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany; 18 to 20 June - 3rd Berlin International Film Festival; 7 July - 1953 Menzengraben mining accident
Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 American drama directed by Elia Kazan, starring Fredric March, Terry Moore and Gloria Grahame.The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood was based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson.
Ernst Thälmann is an East German propaganda film in two parts about the life of Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany during much of the Weimar Republic, directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon in the title role.
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The state owned East German film company DEFA produced about 800 feature films between 1946 and 1992. Besides DEFA, the state broadcaster DFF and the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now the Filmuniversität Babelsberg) [ 1 ] were the only other organizations in the GDR that produced feature films for cinematic release, although far fewer ...