Karl Marx and one of the roadways in Berlin named for him. But the Economic Council of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) believes it’s about time the country moved away from its Cold War past, as Bild first reported. She also doubted whether many other people would support changing the names of Karl Marx streets. There are also streets named for Ernst Thälmann, who helped organize the attempted Hamburg Uprising during the Weimar Republic. READ ALSO: The German streets that honour murderers and racists

Source: The Local August 26, 2016 13:07 UTC