Kreuzberg
Once-walled working class quarter turned squatters' paradise, still famous for street protest and punk clubs.
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This guide to Kreuzberg in Berlin centers on the night of May 1st, 1987, when police pulled back from a raid on a street festival and let this squatters' paradise neighborhood erupt. You'll hear how decades hemmed in by the Berlin Wall shaped Kreuzberg into a cheap, crowded refuge for squatters, students and Turkish guest-worker families, and how that night's barricades ended with a supermarket burning near Görlitzer station. Listen for how the neighborhood's rebellious streak has carried into the May Day marches held here every year since.
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