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
Wreck and junk debris of the passenger plane IL-62 at the crash site in Schoenefeld in the state Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic RepublicPhoto no. 52063 © eastgermanyimages.com/Siegfried Bonitz
Berlin-MittePhoto no. 26145

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Berlin — BERLIN 21.06.1988 International conference for nuclear-weapon-free zones in Berlin East Berlin on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic. The German participants Petra Kelly, Gert Bastian and Uta Ranke-Heinemann ( from left ) read the newspaper Neues Deutschland, the central organ of the SED ( Socialist Unity Party of Germany )
Photo ID: 69281
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Berlin — BERLIN 01.07.1986 Buildings at the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin Eastberlin on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69280
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Dresden — DRESDEN 15.07.1986 The Stallhof in Dresden in the state Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69279
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Berlin — BERLIN 01.06.1986 Academy Square in Berlin Eastberlin on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69278
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Berlin — BERLIN 01.07.1986 Facade cleaning at the Palace of the Republic in Berlin Eastberlin on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69277
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 Senior citizens during a visit to a restaurant in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69269
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 Senior citizen with an ear trumpet in a restaurant in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69268
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 A dancing couple in a restaurant in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69265
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 A married couple in the Andersen-Nexoe-Heim in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69264
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 Photograph of senior citizens in the Andersen-Nexoe-Heim in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69256
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 Senior citizens are peeling potatoes in a kitchen in the Andersen-Nexoe-Heim in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69252
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Leipzig — LEIPZIG 20.04.1973 Employees work in the kitchen in the Andersen-Nexoe-Heim in Leipzig in the federal state of Saxony on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic
Photo ID: 69249
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