Rebels, workers, radicals: The making of 'Red Berlin'
DW | 19.09.2026 16:14
Berlin has a reputation for being unruly. When Joseph Goebbels was appointed the Nazi Party's district leader in 1926, he described Berlin as "the reddest city in Europe besides Moscow." From the Tailors' Revolution of 1830 and the barricades of 1848, to the rise of a vast industrial working class later in the 19th century, revolution, protest and rebellion run deep throughout the city's history.
