The Battle of Friedrichshain

January 1931 and the Berlin district of Friedrichshain has become a battle ground. Berlin, in the midst of a horrid recession racked by unemployment is finding its working class population being pushed further to the fringes. But then why? Does Joseph Goebbels invite the Communist Party under Walter Ulbricht to a hall in Friedrichshain. Find out what happens in this, the latest episode by Achtung! History.

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