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
SchönefeldPhoto no. 52063 © eastgermanyimages.com/Siegfried Bonitz
Berlin-MittePhoto no. 26145

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Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.05.1986 Children and young people in pioneer clothing on the roadside on Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg in the area of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show 2 photos

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.02.1986 Manor's Palace an der Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show photo

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.02.1986 Manor's Palace an der Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show photo

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.05.1986 Demonstration with street protest on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg in the area of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show photo

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.02.1986 Water truck truck Skoda Liaz MTS 24 during the street cleaning of Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg in the area of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show photo

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.02.1986 Sight and gate monument " Nauener Tor " in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show photo

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.02.1986 Facades of an old residential and multi-family dwelling house by the architect Egon Eiermann on Kurfuerstenstrasse in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg in the area of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show 3 photos

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.05.1986 Tourist attraction, strolling and shopping street Brandenburger Strasse in the district Innenstadt in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show 2 photos

Berlin — BERLIN 02.12.1994 PDS members Elke Herer, Gregor Gysi, Hanno Harnisch, Lothar Bisky and Dietmar Bartsch during hunger strike in the Volksbuehne theater on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Burkhard Lange Show photo

Berlin — BERLIN 09.11.1989 On the evening of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Trabant car drives from East Berlin to West Berlin at the border crossing point Invalidenstrasse in the district Mitte in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Robert Grahn Show photo

Berlin — BERLIN 14.04.1988 Greenhouses in the Alwin Bielefeldt allotment garden in Friedrichsfelde in the district Bezirk Lichtenberg in Berlin, the former capital of the GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Bonitz Show photo

Potsdam — POTSDAM 01.08.1986 Paths on trees and bushes in the park im Garten der Villa an der Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 21 in the district Babelsberg in Potsdam in the state Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo: Siegfried Gebser Show photo

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