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A list of themes of the GDR-archives from 1949 till 1973

On this website there are a lot of pictures from the German Democratic Republic. These pictures are from a great GDR photo archives. In these archives there are more then ten thousends of photos.
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The time area 1949 - 1973

Photos: the socialist ordinary weekday in the GDR

• traffic, streets and cars in East Berlin
• the avenue Unter den Linden in East Berlin, 1960
• East Berlin in the 50ies, the Strausberger square, Stalinallee
• outskirts of the city of Berlin, 1950
• textiles in an department store, 1963
• children in a holiday camp, summer 1958
• a socialist secundary school in Berlin Köpenick, 1965
• young pioneers play with a Vostok dummy
• a camp at lake Hölzerner near Berlin, summer 1950
• a house community, Berlin air, several things
• young people, city of Berlin, Deutschlandtreffen 1964
• the city centre of Leipzig, 1963
• holiday at the Baltic Sea, Warnemünde, summer 1971
• petrol station Minol, a highway, a motorbike shop
• a kindergarden in East Berlin, 1973
• Anna Seghers, Erwin Strittmatter and Gerhart Eisler
• youth ordination in the GDR, the fashion, 1966
• symbols and famous landmarks of East Berlin
• East Berlin: department store Centrum, Alexander square, the world clock
• cars, vehicles and busses in East Berlin, 1970

pictures of the political side of the GDR

• state visit of Nikita Chruschtschow in East Berlin, 1963
• commemoration for Joseph Stalin in East Berlin, 1953
• pioneers, FDJ, banners, flags, May Day
• an exhibition about Lenin in East Berlin, 1950
• May Day 1951 and 1954
• pioneers sing a song on a square
• policical propaganda in East Germany in the 50ies
• an incident at the inner-German border, 1965
• the border police on the river Elbe, 1952
• the soviet monument in Berlin Treptow
• a railway for pioneers and children in Berlin Wuhletal, 1963

pictures of work and weekday in the GDR

• young brigade with a FDJ-banner, 1961
• the harvest in the region of Leipzig, 1955 and 1967
• the harvest on the field, summer 1953
• a harvest of potatoes, 1964
• a socialist farm in the little town Pasewalk 1957 & 1964
• the women of ruins in East Berlin, 1950/51
• the construction of the avenue Stalin in East Berlin, 1950
• the building of the sea port of Rostock, 1959
• the mining, the factory Merkers, 1956
• the oil factorys in Schwedt and Leuna, 1964
• an instruction for railwaymen, 1960-65

pictures of sports in East Germany

• winter sports - Oberhof 1952
• volleyball in the Cantian stadium in the city East Berlin, 1952
• the establishment of sports grounds
• young runners in a forrest
• a sports meeting in the city of Berlin
• racing boats, 1955

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pictures of 2007 - 2008

the tracks / traces of the GDR - Berlin 2007 and 2008

• the avenue Karl-Marx in the city of Berlin
• the demolition of the palace of the republic in East Berlin
• the demolition of the palace of the republic in East Berlin
• a monument of Ernst Thälmann
• VEB, a former kindergarden an more
• a former culture center Berlin Weißensee
• the former prison in Berlin Hohenschönhausen
• several old buildings in East Berlin
• a former power station in East Berlin
• Alexander square, signs of an old market
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