East German Visuals
@GDRvisuals
Documenting life in the former GDR. Also found at @YugoslavVisuals.
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East German border guard Conrad Schumann jumping over a barbed-wire fence during the early construction of the Berlin Wall to defect to the West, 1961.
Disco at Palast der Republik, East Berlin, 1970s.
Atmospheric East Berlin by night, 1970s.
Propaganda poster warning of the threat of potato beetles which the GDR accused the United States of dropping on East Germany to ruin potato crops, 1950s.
1978 poster for the Interkosmos Soyuz 31 flight - on board were Sigmund Jähn from the GDR and Valery Bykovsky from the Soviet Union.
