Educators take the nursery school children for a walk in Prora in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic RepublicPhoto no. 66163 © eastgermanyimages.com/Manfred Uhlenhut
Groß KörisPhoto no. 65997 © eastgermanyimages.com/Manfred Uhlenhut
Delegates at the XI. Party Congress of the SED Socialist Unity Party of Germany in Berlin, capital of the GDRPhoto no. 51829 © eastgermanyimages.com/Burkhard Lange
MagdeburgPhoto no. 59487 © eastgermanyimages.com/Manfred Uhlenhut
Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED Central Committee Socialist Unity Party and Chairman of the State Council und die Mitglieder des Militaerrates aus der VR Bulgarien, der Ungarischen Volksrepublik, der DDR, der VR Polen, der SR Rumaenien, der UdSSR und der CSSR sowie der Chef des Stabes der Vereinten Streitkraefte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic RepublicPhoto no. 61805 © eastgermanyimages.com/Burkhard Lange
Blick auf das Wrack der INTERFLUG Iljuschin IL62 mit der Kennung DDR-SEW auf dem Gelände des Flughafens Berlin-Schönefeld.Am 17.Juni 1989 wurde die Maschine bei einem Startabbruch zerstört. Da bei dem Startabbruch die Triebwerke versehentlich abgestellt wurden, anstatt vollen Umkehrschub zu geben, überrollte das Luftfahrzeug das Ende der Start- und Landebahn. Der Rumpf brach auseinander und ging in Flammen auf. Es kamen 21 Menschen ums Leben. Die Wrackteile wurden in wochenlanger Kleinstarbeit geborgen, der restliche, in den Tragflächensektionen verbliebene Kerosinbestand enttankt. Wrackteile sollen auf dem Geländes des ehemaligen Südteiles Diepensee des einstigen INTERFLUG-Zentralflughafens vergraben worden sein.Photo no. 52063 © eastgermanyimages.com/Siegfried Bonitz
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 Sign with the inscription " GHG Obst und Gemuese " (GHG Fruit and Vegetables) on the wall of the Zentralmarkthalle (Central Market Hall) in the Marienviertel district of Mitte district in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 A sign of the "Grosshandelsgesellschaft Obst, Gemuese und Kartoffeln Berlin" (Berlin Fruit, Vegetable and Potato Wholesale Company) hangs under a window with broken panes on the rubble-filled Central Market Hall on the building site of the Marienviertel in the Mitte district in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 Street sign " Durchgangsverkehr " Liebknechtsrasse corner Littenstrasse at the Zentralmarkthalle on the building site of the Marienviertel in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic. A sign of the "Grosshandelsgesellschaft Obst, Gemuese und Kartoffeln Berlin" (Berlin Fruit, Vegetable and Potato Wholesale Company) hangs under a window with broken panes on the debris-filled market hall
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 View of the construction work at Alexanderplatz from the construction site of the Berlin TV Tower in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 View from the construction site of the Berlin TV Tower towards the east with Haus des Lehrers and Congress Hall in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 Assembly of the segments of the sphere / dome on the Berlin TV tower in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 Building material at the crane on the Berlin TV tower in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 Construction workers secured with ropes and carabiners during steel girder work on the Berlin TV Tower in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 Construction workers secured with ropes and carabiners during steel girder work on the sliding core of the Berlin TV Tower in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 08.05.1968 View from the television tower to the construction site Hotel Stadt Berlin today Park Inn by Radisson and the House of the Electrical Industry at Alexanderplatz on Alexanderstrasse in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 01.10.1971 Recording of the sports show of the DTSB (German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) in the Dynamo Sports Hall in the Hohenschoenhausen Sports Forum - Erich Honecker (1st row, 3rd from left - head of the sports department until 1971, then First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED), Manfred Ewald (1st row, 2nd from left - 1961-1988 President of the DTSB) and other party functionaries sit in the audience and applaud in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
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Berlin — BERLIN 18.12.1986
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