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...months, East German Communists had militantly whooped up a Whitsunday youth march on West Berlin. The Reds had proclaimed that, on May 28, half-a-million members of the Communist-run FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend) would converge on Berlin's Western sectors in military formation. Their slogan: "Forward-Berlin Must Be Ours!" In Meissen, a Communist speaker had added a warlike warning. Said he: "When the first shot is fired, that will be the signal for the storming of Berlin...
Meanwhile, out in the Soviet zone, FDJ auxiliary units scrounged busily to supply uniforms (blue shirts, black trousers) for the Whitsunday marchers. Harassed farmers were peremptorily ordered to provide extra travel rations. The East German Finance Ministry announced that the marchers were eligible for special Whitsuntide death and accident insurance. In Saxony, Communist youth leaders, many of whom had learned their trade as Hitler youth, instructed their new charges in street-fighting tactics...