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East Berlin’s Reichsbahn operates West Berlin’s S-Bahn network. That means Reichsbahn owns all tracks and stations in the West, and employs all S-Bahn staff regardless of which side of the Wall they work on.

West Berlin Reichsbahn employees go on strike in September 1980. They want better wages and working conditions. The Reichsbahn management won’t negotiate, so freight trains and the S-Bahn come to a halt and workers occupy signal boxes.

Elfriede Dube is working the day this happens. She decides to side with her colleagues and becomes one of over 200 strikers to lose their jobs in the aftermath.

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• ehem. Güterbahnhof Spandau, Brunsbütteler Damm 4, 13581 Berlin

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  35

  latitude

  52.5332933

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  13.197366

• Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten, Hardenbergplatz, 10623 Berlin

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  48

  latitude

  52.507277

  longitude

  13.331992