On June 22, tour guide Nathaniel Flakin will lead a walking tour about the November Revolution of 1918/1919.
The Revolution That Started at Potsdamer Platz
Today, Potsdamer Platz is the most soulless part of Berlin. Can you believe the biggest revolution in the city’s history kicked off here? 107 years ago, an insurrection took place in Berlin. With the general strike of November 9, 1918, workers toppled the Kaiser and ended the First World War. Thus began the November Revolution. Millions of people took to the streets to fight for an end to capitalism. But the Social Democratic Party allied with the imperial military to drown the revolution in blood. A century after the uprising, we will visit the spots where Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Richard Müller, and countless proletarians in the German capital changed the history of the world.
Our tour will be meeting near Potsdamer Platz — on the south side of the square, at the exit of the U2 subway station, next to Espresso House (Potsdamer Platz 10). We will meet at 14:00 and leave by 14:10.
The tour will end two hours later near Hallesches Tor. We will not be using public transportation — the tour is completely outside.
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