Berlin Karl Marx Allee (#2559)

Spring in bloom, along Karl-Marx-Allee. At about this same point there are a series of signs documenting serious problems within the GDR in 1953 including exceptional demands to extend workers hours so as to speed up the construction of this housing. Anger was high enough that there were large scale demonstrations and the bringing in of Soviet forces to squash the rebellion, resulting in the death of 125.