This year marks the 70th anni­ver­sary of the unrest during 17 June 1953 in the German Demo­cra­tic Repu­blic (“East Germany”). With this dossier of trans­la­ted article excerpts, we want to shed light on signi­fi­cant aspects of the events and make them acces­si­ble to an inter­na­tio­nal audience.