Squatters' houses on St. Pauli Hafenstraße, Hamburg, Germany, circa 1988. Throughout the 1980s these squats were a focal point for various social conflicts, with riots and violent conflicts between the squatters and police forces or groups of fascists mixed with hooligans. The houses were sold to a cooperative to defuse the potential for conflict between the residents and the state in 1995. Black and white film photograph
Squatters' houses on St. Pauli Hafenstraße, Hamburg, Germany. The grafitti reads: "Solitary confinement is torture in the Fascist continuum. They also support a revolutionary association. 129/a (law concerning the formation of terrorist groups) will not drown out our voices. We have not failed, but those responsible for housing shortages and war, for the destruction of Nature and Life. We are still dancing, and no longer think of Voscherau and Lochte. (Voscherau resigned as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Hamburg city assembly in 1987 after having differences with the mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi over dealing with "illegal squatters" in the Hamburg Hafenstrasse area: he believed that the mayor was taking too soft a line; he later became mayor himself; Christian Lochte, head of the Hamburg intelligence service, accused several people living in the Hafenstrasse block of being associated with the Red Army Faction, and threatened all the residents with prosecution for harbouring terrorists).
Size: 5619px × 3702px
Location: St. Pauli Hafenstraße, Hamburg, Germany.
Photo credit: © will Perrett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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