Download or read book Uprising in East Germany, 1953 written by Christian F. Ostermann and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on the recent unprecedented access to the once-closed archives of several member states of the Warsaw Pact, this collection of primary-source documents presents one of the most notorious events of post-war European history.