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The participants of the uprising of June 17th, 1953, and the victims of its suppression will be commemorated today. Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey said workers from Berlin and Brandenburg had initiated the protests back then. Freedom needed to be defended over and over again.

Holger Friedrich and his wife Silke purchased Berliner Verlag, the publishing house behind the Berliner Zeitung daily, in September. Now the enthusiasm…