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(R-L) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the President of the Federal Constitutional Court Andreas Vosskuhle, President of the Bundestag (Germany's lower house of parliament) Norbert Lammert, German President Joachim Gauck and President of the Bundesrat (Germany's upper house of parliament) Stephan Weil lay wreaths in honour of the victims of the 17 June, 1953 uprising during a 60th anniversary ceremony at Seestrasse cemetary in Berlin on June 17, 2013. In June 1953, Berlin construction workers went on strike against pay cuts which triggered widespread protests against the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The uprising was violently suppressed by the eastern German police (Volkspolizei) and Soviet Forces. Until the German reunification, the date of June 17 was established as a national holiday in Western Germany in commemoration of the 1953 rebellion in the East. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ODD ANDERSEN
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Berlin, GERMANY |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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ODD ANDERSEN |
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17 Iunie 2013 |
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4928 x 3280 (2.04 MB) |
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