EditorialYoung men clearing rubble in Magdeburg. Such work was usually considered voluntry, but whoever wanted an apartment had to show that he had worked a minimum of 1.000 hours for the NAW, the National Reconstruction Work.Magdeburg, East-Germany,1959.
EditorialCzech Skoda cars are displayed in the window of a cardealer in Dresden, East Germany. Dresden's ruins are mirrored in the window pane. Sign in the window says " cars sold only when ordered beforehand. " Dresden,1959.
EditorialBerlin before the wall was built: Nostalgic road-signs point to towns like Koenisgsberg, Breslau, Danzig and Gleiwitz now in the Soviet Union and Poland, and to Magdeburg and Leipzig, just as unreacheable in East-Germany. Berlin-West,1955.
EditorialChildren in a refugee center in Uelzen, West Germany. Refugees are registered at the Uelzen camp; in 1951 West Germany admitted 9.5 million refugees, mostly from East Germany, a great burden on the struggling economy.
EditorialRefugees from East-Germany having lunch in the refugee-camp at Uelzen. Refugees are registered at this reception center-in 1951 there were already 9,5 million refugees in West-Germany,a great burden on the struggling economy. Uelzen,1951.
EditorialEisenach in East Germany was best known for its car factory where the "Wartburg",a newer version of the former German "DKW" was built.Streamers on the factory gate admonish workers to fulfill the plan. Eisenach,GDR,1959.
EditorialPrefab-houses are put up in Hoyerswerda,a new industrial town built around the power station "Schwarze Pumpe" - Black Pump. East-Germany,1959.
EditorialEisenach in East Germany was best known for its car factory where the "Wartburg",a newer version of the former German "DKW" was built.Eisenach,GDR,1959.
Editorial" Berlin remains free" -surrounded on all sides by Communist East Germany, West-Berlin proclaims its firm will to remain within the Western orbit. May 1st parade, West-Berlin, 1959.
EditorialMonument in memory of the Berlin airlift, 1948-49, in which the Western Allies flew provisions into West Berlin. The Soviet Union had blocked all access to Berlin (surrounded by Soviet-occupied East Germany), when the West German Mark became currency i...
EditorialWest Berliners, cooped up in their city surrounded by East German territory, spend their free time in the lake area within city limits. Using binoculars, a man looks across Lake Wannsee into East Germany. 1958.
EditorialYoung men clearing rubble in Magdeburg. Such work was usually considered voluntry, but whoever wanted an apartment had to show that he had worked a minimum of 1.000 hours for the NAW, the National Reconstruction Work.Magdeburg, East-Germany,1959.
EditorialCzech Skoda cars are displayed in the window of a cardealer in Dresden, East Germany. Dresden's ruins are mirrored in the window pane. Sign in the window says " cars sold only when ordered beforehand. " Dresden,1959.
Editorial" Berlin remains free" -surrounded on all sides by Communist East Germany, West-Berlin proclaims its firm will to remain within the Western orbit. May 1st parade, West-Berlin, 1959.
EditorialBerlin before the wall was built: Nostalgic road-signs point to towns like Koenisgsberg, Breslau, Danzig and Gleiwitz now in the Soviet Union and Poland, and to Magdeburg and Leipzig, just as unreacheable in East-Germany. Berlin-West,1955.
EditorialA life-size signpost showing a worker and his question: "Is this unity?" In the center of the street a West German policeman looks across into East Germany. This was the demarcation line before the Wall was built in August 1961.
EditorialThe "Bundesgrenzschutz" (Federal Frontier Guards), a police unit of 10.000 established in 1951, is West Germany's first military unit after World War II. Second Lt. Glombitza, who fled from East Germany, drilling his recruits of the police unit. Co...
EditorialChildren in a refugee center in Uelzen, West Germany. Refugees are registered at the Uelzen camp; in 1951 West Germany admitted 9.5 million refugees, mostly from East Germany, a great burden on the struggling economy.
EditorialChildren in a refugee center in Uelzen, West Germany. Iin 1951 West Germany admitted 9.5 million refugees, mostly from East Germany, a great burden on the struggling economy. Uelzen, 1951.