17 June 1953

Today is the 50th anniversary of the June 17th uprising in East Germany. Read an article on the uprising in the English version of FAZ. Here's a list of some web resources in english. Also in english are these two pages from Deutsche Welle, and this page from the Goethe Institute. In german, today's Tagesspiegel has a collection of essays and pictures on the event and its commemoration today.