West German police mass-arrested thousands attending East German peace meetings

Evidence

Government and official bodies used the police to try to prevent political contacts between West and East Germans. West German police arrested 10,000 young West Germans who were returning from a Whitsun meeting in East Berlin and held them at the border for over twenty-four hours until they agreed to register their names and undergo a health' examination. In May 1951 another 10,000 or so young West Germans, returning from a Meeting on Germany’ in East Berlin, were arrested by the police and held for two days at the border between West and East Germany at Herrenburg because they refused to let their names be registered. To stop people going to the `Third Youth and Student World Peace Festival’ held in East Berlin on 5-9 August 1951, The German-German border, which at that time was still open, was closed by substantial numbers of West German police. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1895

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: West German police mass-detained youth returning from East Berlin meetings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1895

Broader Connections

• West German police mass-detained youth returning from East Berlin meetings #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1895