Striking construction workers in Stalinallee, demonstrations in the government district, vandalized party offices, fires, Soviet tanks rolling in, summary executions - the first
popular uprising in a state controlled by the Soviet Union after 1945 began in Berlin. 
As an important industrial, media and military location as well as a place of work and residence for important players, Treptow - as a border district in divided Berlin - and Köpenick also played a part in the events of the time.
the events of the time.