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Eisenach in East Germany was best known for its car factory where the "Wartburg",a newer version of the former German "DKW" was built.Streamers on the factory gate admonish workers to fulfill the plan.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
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Eisenach in East Germany was best known for its car factory where the "Wartburg"...

In Rostock,people hurry past the Communist Party premises; on the housefront pictures of Communist dignitaries and the banner "Long live the German Democratic Republic,the first workers- and farmers' state in the history of Germany".Rostock,1959.
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In Rostock,people hurry past the Communist Party premises; on the housefront pi...

Warnow wharf, Rostock, German Democratic Republic.
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Warnow wharf, Rostock, German Democratic Republic.

Workers laying a cable in the Warnow-shipyard in Warnemuende near Rostock,1959.
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Workers laying a cable in the Warnow-shipyard in Warnemuende near Rostock,1959.

Housewives and children at a bus station in Rostock The signboard behind carried production figures from surrounding cooperatives and the verse next to them states that the farmers "lay the table of the Republic." Rostock,1959
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Housewives and children at a bus station in Rostock The signboard behind car...

Even a drab,derelict building carried a banner, which proclaims the superiority of Communism over Capitalism.Rostock,1959
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Even a drab,derelict building carried a banner, which proclaims the supe...

A shepherd in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen, a former aristocratic "Junker estate, divided in 1946 into plots for local farmers, who then joined the cooperative, providing them with machinery and seeds. Triwillershagen, East-Germany, 1959
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A shepherd in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen, a former aristocr...

A shepherd in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen,a former "Junker"estate divided in 1946 into plots for local farmers,who then joined the cooperative which provides machinery and seeds. Triwillershagen,East-Germany,1959.
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A shepherd in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen,a former "Junker"e...

Harvesting root vegetables in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen,a former "Junker"estate, 1945 divided into plots for local farmers who then joined the cooperative which provides machinery and seeds.
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Harvesting root vegetables in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen,a...

Work in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen a former "Junker"estate divided in 1945 into small plots for local farmers who then joined the cooperative which provides machinery and seeds.
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Work in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen a former "Junker"estate...

Work in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen a former "Junker"estate divided in 1945 into small plots for local farmers who then joined the cooperative which provides machinery and seeds. Harvesting sugar beets.
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Work in the agricultural cooperative at Triwillershagen a former "Junker"estate...

A cooperative shop (Konsum) in the East German province.
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A cooperative shop (Konsum) in the East German province.