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Uprising in East Germany

Witness History

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Witness History is a weekly podcast from the BBC World Service. Today we're taking you back to an uprising against communist rule in East Germany. It's June 17th, 1953 and there are tens of thousands of people marching in Berlin. The physical wall has not been built yet but the city is split into two halves.

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