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May 1st in Berlin-East: "Workers' Combat Groups"
(without arms) during the parade.
Berlin,1959
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May 1st in Berlin-East: "Workers' Combat Groups" (without arms) during the parad...

May 1st in Berlin-East: "Workers' Combat Groups"       
(without arms) during the parade.                      
Berlin,1959
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May 1st in Berlin-East: "Workers' Combat Groups" (without arms) during th...

May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin,1959.    
Spectators watch from ruins in "Unter den Linden",     
main thoroughfare of East-Berlin,1959
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May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin,1959. Spectators watch from ru...

May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin,1959.    
East-Berlin:Hitler,cooking in a German WW-II steel-    
helmet and a devil stoking the fire,on a float in the  
May-1st parade.Berlin-East,1959
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May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin,1959. East-Berlin:Hitler,cooki...

May 1st in Berlin-East: truck with caricatures of      
"war mongers" Adenauer and Hitler,fanning the          
flames of atomic war while the devil looks on.         
Berlin 1959
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May 1st in Berlin-East: truck with caricatures of "war mongers" Adenauer a...

May 1st in Berlin-East: parade with caricatures of
"war mongers" :Willy Brandt as the "Voice of America".
Berlin 1959
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May 1st in Berlin-East: parade with caricatures of "war mongers" :Willy Brandt...

May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin,1959.    
Posters carried in the West-berlin parade: large       
poster shows the small Berlin-bear,the city's mascot,  
shouting "Berlin remains free" while a Russian calls   
the little bear "warmonger" and "Fascist".W-Berlin,1958
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May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin,1959. Posters carried in the W...

May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin:
Posters with images of leading Communists and of
Karl Marx are carried across "Unter den Linden",
main street of Berlin-East,1959
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May 1st celebrations in East- and West-Berlin: Posters with images of leading Co...

1959 was the tenth anniversary of the GDR,the German   
Democratic Republic, and banners were even more        
frequent than usually.Streamer on this house says:"Long
live the GDR,the first farmers' and workers' state!"   
Eisenach,1959
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1959 was the tenth anniversary of the GDR,the German Democratic Republic, and...

Ruins in East Berlin. 10th anniversary GDR.
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Ruins in East Berlin. 10th anniversary GDR.

An anti-Nato exhibit in East Berlin shows West-German  
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in US-uniform.              
Berlin,1959
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An anti-Nato exhibit in East Berlin shows West-German Chancellor Konrad Adenau...

An anti-Nato exhibit in East Berlin shows the Pentagon, Eisenhower and Dulles
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An anti-Nato exhibit in East Berlin shows the Pentagon, Eisenhower and Dulles