East German Visuals

Documenting life in the former GDR. Also found at @YugoslavVisuals.

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

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[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

View over the newly erected Berlin Wall at Bernauer Straße, 1961.

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Soviet soldiers walking past the Royal Palace in Dresden, 1982.

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East Berlin, 1976.

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Aeroflot's destination posters, 1960s.

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Once upon a time in Karl-Marx-Stadt

[Allan Hailstone (not Alan) @allhailtwit]

East Berlin, Alexanderplatz, 8 September 1959. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR

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An East German Stasi agent's photograph of a Western intelligence operative who is simultaneously pointing a camera right back at him, somewhere near Berlin, exact date unknown.

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Mrs. Töpfer and her grandson René in their apartment in East Berlin, 1986.

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Erich Honecker on vacation in Crimea, 1977.

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Unter den Linden, East Berlin, 1970s.

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Bitterfeld, 1980s.

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Once upon a time in Dresden

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A young East German border guard, 1977.

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Pioneers clean a road sign in Zeuthen, 1978.

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East German Border Troops performing landside border surveillance along the Baltic Sea coast near Sassnitz, 1983.

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Once upon a time in the GDR

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East Berlin, 1989.

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Hotel Berolina, East Berlin, 1960s.

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Members of the Free German Youth enjoying a hot summer's day, East Berlin, 1980s.

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Dresden, 1971.