https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8 Made with a curious mind en-us 2021-03-10 17:24:38 UTC 2024-05-24 20:12:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295437110 2021-03-10 22:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295437110 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295437728 2021-03-10 22:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295437728 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295439019 2021-03-10 22:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295439019 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295440668 "More than 16000 people had moved from East to West Germany in 1952, and a further 120,000 had left in the first four months of 1953. One report warned of 'growing unrest among the [East German] population stemming from the hard-line policies of the GDR'" (Applebaum 436)]]> 2021-03-10 22:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295440668 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295452649 "On June 23, 1953, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook hands with a man in the Elisabeth Hospital not far from Potsdamer Platz in the British sector of Berlin, who had been injured in the GDR popular uprising on June 17, 1953 in East Berlin. After strikes in East Berlin, there was a popular uprising on June 17, 1953, which was suppressed by Soviet troops. (Photo by Bratke / picture alliance via Getty Images)"]]> 2021-03-10 22:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295452649 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295462345 2021-03-10 22:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295462345 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295468748 Western Germany offers opportunity to live under. more caring, less harsh government]]> 2021-03-10 22:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295468748 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295469361 Those fleeing to the West are unwilling to take part in the communist society that the former government made too harsh]]> 2021-03-10 22:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295469361 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295485942 "He had agreed to broadcast the strikers' demands[...]and he had continued to do so until the radio's American controller, Gordon Ewing, burst into his office and told him to stop. 'Do you want to start World War Three?' Ewing told Bahr that American responsibility and American security guarantees ended at the border, and he'd better be clear about that in his broadcasts" (Applebaum 439)]]> 2021-03-10 22:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295485942 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295495641 Broadcasting the planned strike spread the word of unrest and ideas to protest, and likely made people assume the West would intervene ]]> 2021-03-10 22:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295495641 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295501443 "'The people there were definitely 'eight penny' boys from West Berlin. You gave them eight pennies and tell them to go and pick up trouble'" (Applebaum 441)]]> 2021-03-10 23:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295501443 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295505596 East Berliners Riot Against Soviet Occupation 1953]]> 2021-03-10 23:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295505596 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295508238 It was unlikely that workers rose up against the worker's state, and that Germans opposed authority in the first place. It was also unlikely that only East Germans causes destruction on this large of a scale]]> 2021-03-10 23:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1295508238 9958035 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1302418303 "This community would include a free and united Germany, with a government based upon free and secret elections. This free community and the full independence of East European nations could mean the end of the present unnatural division of Europe."]]> 2021-03-12 13:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1302418303 9959023 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1302647779 "If the Soviets had not intervened, it would undoubtedly have meant the collapse of the Communist regime in East Germany" (Ingimundarson 388).
Photo of striking workers in East Berlin (from akg-images / Universal Images Group)]]> 2021-03-12 14:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1302647779 9958035 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303603824 From the 20th Century Almanac Documentary it describes how Ulbricht with the death of Stalin did not decrease the labor of the East German workers which made him extremely unpopular and was a cause of the revolts.  The Soviet leaders did not discourage the actions of Ulbricht which turned more people against the Soviet Union and against East Germany. ]]> 2021-03-12 17:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303603824 9959143 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303615253 "the U.S. government tried to obtain agreement from its English and French partners to set forth preconditions for calling a quadripartite conference that would be clearly unacceptable to the Soviet Union and, consequently, would make the organization of negotiations impossible." (Ivan)]]> 2021-03-12 17:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303615253 9959023 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303628653 Ingimundarson believes that one issue regarding Germany was the United States' involvement in the "food-scheme". He says it had "tangible effects on the political situation inn East Germany" and made the US reconsider their foregin policy. However, he argues that the SED announcing the New Course was the event that truly "spear-headed" the demonstrations. ]]> 2021-03-12 17:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303628653 9959143 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303633232 The United States was not considering the possibility of German Reunification with the Soviet Union which made negotiations complicated.]]> 2021-03-12 17:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303633232 9961417 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303634133 Ostermann believes that the East German uprising stems from the poor living and working conditions that resulted from Ulbricht's socialization program. "As a result of the disruption of the agricultural system, severe food shortages occurred throughout Eastern Germany int he winter and spring of 1953. [...] East Germans were fleeing the country by the thousands, 15,000 to 25,000 per month, despite the sealing off of the inner-German demarcation line. All over the country, protests, strikes, and other symptoms of dissatisfaction were apparent in larger industrial plans as well as in the 'bourgeois' bloc parties"]]> 2021-03-12 17:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303634133 9959143 https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303646610 States "The Western powers did not expect any agreement on German reunification; they moved, however, to exploit the theme of German reunification more effectively"(106)]]> 2021-03-12 17:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/9959143/y7w1mdava4avmcq8/wish/1303646610