Arrest of a protester by the police and detectives. With the beginning of the global economic crisis and the increase in the number of the unemployed, street fights between the NSDAP and the KPD became more frequent.
Headline:Beginning of a KPD protest march in Wedding, 1929
On the morning of the 1st of May the first people gather to one of several protests in the Wedding district. Like many other demonstrations, this was later brutally disbanded by the police. Earlier was introduced a ban on demonstrations in the open air that was valid for the 1st of May as well.
Headline:Fighting between the KPD and the police on May Day , 1929
Fighting between the KPD and the police on May Day , 1929
In Berlin's working-class districts, here in Neukoelln, there were always serious battles between the police and KPD-members, with both sides using firearms.
Policemen are looking for cover behind a crashed car. When the Communist Party organized a mass demonstration on May Day in Berlin, police opened fire on the participants. It came to a bloody street fight, which demanded numerous victims.
Headline:Police office on the corner of Hermmstrasse and Steinmetz-Strasse in Berlin-Neukoelln, 1929
During the demonstrations in the Neukoelln district in Berlin, there were many street battles that demanded numerous casualties. This photograph shows the arrest of a protester by the police.
Headline:Street battle between NSDAP and KPD, 1929
Police during the riots on May Day at Cottbuser Damm. The police could only rarely prevent the street fights between the NSDAP and the KPD. The civil war-like conditions became a permanent phenomenon.
Headline:Mounted police at the Berlin uprisings, 1929
On May Day , due to the start of the global economic crisis in Berlin, there were serious uprisings and clashes between KPD demonstrators and the police, which resulted in several casualties.
The KPD supporters built street barricades from furniture vans and trucks, which were intended to block the police from accessing some neighbourhoods. During the demonstrations on May Day , there were serious street battles between the demonstrators of the KPD and the Berlin police.
Headline:Protest march on May Day in Wedding, 1929
Protest march in the Berlin working-class district of Wedding, a stronghold of the KPD. There were many street fights between the KPD and the SA especially in the working-class districts .
The arrest of a protester by a police officer and a detective in Berlin-Neukoelln. With the beginning of the global economic crisis and the increase in the number of the unemployed, street fights between the communists and the KPD became more frequent.
Headline:Perturbation of local traffic by demonstrators, 1929
Perturbation of local traffic by demonstrators, 1929
The disturbance of local transport was a popular way of demonstration, as it was possible to get the most attention and the strongest propaganda success with it. This was often the case in the working-class districts Wedding and Neukoelln in Berlin.
Headline:Expulsion of the KPD demonstrators by the police, 1929
Expulsion of the KPD demonstrators by the police, 1929
Police are chasing KPD protesters at Berlin's Alexanderplatz with a fire engine, after the followers of the KPD have not adhered to the assembly ban and have gathered. In the course of events a street battle occured with the supporters of the NSDAP.
Headline:The police blocks a Reichsbanner rally, 1931
Policemen blocking the Reichsbanner rally in the Zirkus Bush. The attempt of the Reichsbanner to protect the Weimar Republic against the attacks of the KPD and the NSDAP became even weaker.
Clearance of the Turmstrasse in Berlin by the police. There were 20 casualties and more than 200 injured when the Prussian police opened fire on the demonstrators.
Headline:Policemen separate demonstrating protesters, 1929
Three communists were killed in the street battles on May Day in Berlin. This photograph shows the burial of the victims of the Roter Frontkaempferbund and their comrades in Friedrichsfelde.
Headline:Police intervenes in the fight of hostile parties, 1932
Police intervenes in the fight of hostile parties, 1932
The police intervenes in the fight between political parties in the "Neue Welt", a restaurant in the Hasenheide in Berlin. The clashes between opposing parties with the help of raiding parties became common in the big cities starting 1931.
Headline:Last benediction of the victims of the May uprisings, 1929