The article reports that the famine and the revolts associated with it in 1946/47 have been commemorated four times in German history as firstly in the post-war period itself, when there were protest marches and strikes that had a broad resonance in the occupation society; secondly in the GDR of the 1960s, when East German historiography glorified the uprisings as a mass movement for a democratic reorganization of power and property relations.