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Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Uprising_of_1953_in_East_Germany
GPTKB entity
Statements (49)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:historical_event
protest
revolutionary
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:June_17_Uprising
gptkb:Volksaufstand_des_17._Juni_1953
gptkbp:arrested
over 10,000
gptkbp:cause
gptkb:political_repression
economic hardship
increased work quotas
gptkbp:commemoratedBy
June 17
gptkbp:date
1953
gptkbp:endDate
1953-06-17
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
gptkbp:influenced
gptkb:Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:influencedBy
Stalinist policies
gptkbp:location
gptkb:East_Germany
gptkbp:mediaCoverage
gptkb:Western_media
gptkb:Radio_Free_Europe
gptkbp:notablePlace
gptkb:Berlin
gptkb:Dresden
gptkb:Jena
gptkb:Leipzig
gptkb:Magdeburg
gptkb:Babelsberg
gptkb:Halle
gptkbp:numberOfCitiesInvolved
over 700
gptkbp:numberOfProtesters
over 1 million
gptkbp:opposedBy
gptkb:German_Democratic_Republic
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:participants
gptkb:Soviet_Army
gptkb:East_German_government
East German workers
gptkbp:precededBy
Stalin's death
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Cold_War
gptkb:German_reunification
gptkb:Soviet_occupation_of_Germany
gptkbp:result
arrests
deaths of protesters
suppression of uprising
increased Soviet control
gptkbp:significance
first major anti-Soviet uprising in Eastern Bloc
gptkbp:startDate
1953-06-16
gptkbp:suppressedBy
East German police
Soviet tanks
gptkbp:victim
at least 55
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:German_Democratic_Republic_(East_Germany)
gptkb:Germany_(1940s-1950s)
gptkbp:bfsLayer
6