Karl-Marx-Allee
Grand socialist-era boulevard of wedding-cake apartment blocks, birthplace of a nineteen fifty-three workers' uprising.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin opens on a June morning in 1953, when the construction workers building this very boulevard put down their tools and started walking toward government offices across the city. You'll hear how bakers, nurses and whole families joined the march, and how the wedding-cake facades around you were the regime's proudest advertisement of what it was building for its workers. Soviet tanks were sent in to answer the marchers that same day, the seventeenth of June.
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