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East German Visuals @GDRvisuals

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

Joined December 2023
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East German Visuals
 @GDRvisuals
1 Dec 2025
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East German border troops at the Officers' High School of the Border Troops of the GDR "Rosa Luxemburg" in Suhl, 1984.
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Soviet soldiers stationed in East Germany, 1980s.
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Children participating in a physical education class in Berlin-Marzahn, 1970s.
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Newspaper and magazine kiosk in East Berlin, 1971.
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Sunbathers by the sea, Bergen auf RĂĽgen, 1966.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam, the leader of socialist Ethiopia, is joined by Erich Honecker at Berlin Schönefeld to begin his state visit to the GDR, 1989.
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Simson S51 motorcycle advertisement, 1980s.
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Once upon a time in East Berlin
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East German Visuals reposted
Cold War Conversations Podcast @ColdWarPod
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The rise and fall of East German leader Erich Honecker pod.fo/e/190c4f

Cold War Conversations: The rise and fall of East German leader Erich Honecker (302)

Honecker emerged as an ambitious political player and became the shadowy mastermind behind the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a crucial moment in twentieth-century history.Author Nathan M...

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Camping on the banks of the Elbe, 1960s.
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Stalinstadt, 1960.
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And people say Germans don't have a sense of humour
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East German Stasi at a costume party where they dressed up as those they monitored, athletes, poets, activists, clergy, and academics.
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Erich Honecker at the funeral of Walter Ulbricht, East Berlin, 1973.
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Zwickau, 1980s.
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Alexanderplatz, East Berlin, 1980s.
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East German model Birgit Karbjinski posing beside an autobahn in East Berlin, 1984.
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Cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn during training for the Soyuz 31 mission in 1978.
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New apartments in Hellersdorf, East Berlin, 1984.
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East Berlin, 1984.
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East German Visuals reposted
Eastern Bloc Visuals
 @eastblocvisuals
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A family in Moscow watch Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation speech on television, 1991.
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