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title: East Germany propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/country/east-germany/
description: Browse all 55 items from East Germany in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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# East Germany propaganda in the collection

55 objects, listed by date.

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- [Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947/) (East Germany · 1947 · Fear appeal)
- ["Die Jugend kämpft für den Frieden!": founding ceremony of the Berlin FDJ, Friedrichstadtpalast](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fdj-berlin-founding-ceremony-peace-banner-1947/) (East Germany · Nov 2, 1947 · Glittering generalities)
- [FDJ march-past banners at the 2nd World Festival of Youth, Budapest](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fdj-banners-budapest-world-youth-festival-1949/) (East Germany · Aug 1949 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Jugend voran im Kampf um die Einheit Deutschlands": FDJ torchlight march, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-fdj-torchlight-march-berlin-1949/) (East Germany · Oct 11, 1949 · Name-calling, Glittering generalities)
- [Atlantic Pact float in a peace demonstration, Leipzig](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-leipzig-atlantic-pact-float-1950/) (East Germany · 1950 · Fear appeal)
- [Children examine collected Colorado beetles during the "American beetle" campaign, Chemnitz district](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-potato-beetle-search-children-chemnitz-1950/) (East Germany · Jun 10, 1950 · Scapegoating, Name-calling). Content note: Photograph of schoolgirls with collected beetles; the agency caption accuses US aircraft of dropping them, a claim the US and West German governments rejected.
- ["Siemens-Plania grüßt die Vorhut der internat. Arbeiterklasse": factory delegation at the Soviet memorial, Treptow](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-siemens-plania-banner-soviet-memorial-1950/) (East Germany · Jul 21, 1950 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ['Deutscher, hilf den Frieden erhalten' (German, help preserve peace): banner on a state farm, Petkus, East Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deutscher-hilf-den-frieden-erhalten-petkus-1950/) (East Germany · Nov 18, 1950 · Glittering generalities)
- ["100% unserer Belegschaft sind gegen Remilitarisierung": factory gate boards, Werk Fortschritt II, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-100-percent-workforce-board-fortschritt-berlin-1950/) (East Germany · Dec 22, 1950 · Manufactured consensus, Glittering generalities)
- ["…gegen die amerikanischen Kriegsvorbereitungen": banner on a congress hall, Rössing photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-congress-hall-banner-american-war-preparations-1951/) (East Germany · 1951 · Fear appeal)
- ["Vorwärts zu den III. Weltfestspielen … für den Frieden in Berlin 1951!": banner on the Konsum department store](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-weltfestspiele-1951-konsum-banner-berlin/) (East Germany · 1951 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Werbung für unsere Parteipresse": subscription-drive board, IFA tractor works, Nordhausen](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ifa-nordhausen-party-press-board-1951/) (East Germany · Apr 7, 1951 · Bandwagon)
- ["Der RIAS merk's dir armer Tropf": anti-RIAS display-case panel, Leipzig](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-rias-display-panel-leipzig-1952/) (East Germany · 1952 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [Caricature panel of a US soldier with workers at an exit door, Rössing photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-us-soldier-caricature-panel-1952/) (East Germany · 1952 · Name-calling). Content note: Caricature of a US soldier as an obese, shouting figure in a horned helmet; East German display panel.
- ["Kampftag für Friedensvertrag gegen Generalkriegsvertrag": May Day 1952 rally board, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-may-day-board-berlin-1952/) (East Germany · May 1, 1952 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- ["Was hast du für den Frieden getan?": backdrop quoting Anna Seghers at the 3rd German Writers' Congress, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-writers-congress-seghers-peace-quote-1952/) (East Germany · May 23, 1952 · Testimonial)
- ["Seite an Seite mit der Sowjetunion für den Frieden der Welt": sign on a farmhouse, Schenkenberg](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-lpg-schenkenberg-soviet-friendship-sign-1952/) (East Germany · Oct 21, 1952 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Unsere Antwort an Provokateure": Berlin march for the government after 17 June 1953](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-berlin-demonstration-trust-in-government-banner-1953/) (East Germany · Jun 26, 1953 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)
- [Berliners present gifts to Soviet soldiers "for their considered intervention" on 17 June 1953](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-volkssolidaritaet-thanks-soviet-soldiers-adn-1953/) (East Germany · Jul 1, 1953 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)
- ["Der Warschauer Vertrag, Kraftquell in unserem Kampf für Einheit, Frieden und Sicherheit": East CDU executive meeting, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-east-cdu-board-warsaw-pact-slogan-1955/) (East Germany · Jun 15, 1955 · Glittering generalities)
- [Adenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-adenauer-krupp-cartoon-boards-berlin-1957/) (East Germany · 1957 · Name-calling, Scapegoating). Content note: Caricatures of Konrad Adenauer and of the Krupp arms firm as profiteers of war, with rhymed text about death tolls and atomic rockets.
- ["Faschistische Mörder erneut in Aktion!": street board with eleven numbered portraits, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-faschistische-moerder-erneut-in-aktion-board-berlin-1957/) (East Germany · 1957 · Name-calling, Transfer). Content note: Poster labelling eleven named West German and NATO officers 'Faschistische Mörder' ('fascist murderers') with portrait photographs and epithets; shown whole, the accusations are the poster's own wording.
- ["Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!": pledge boot for the 10th anniversary of the GDR, Neubrandenburg district](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ran-an-den-speck-boot-neubrandenburg-1959/) (East Germany · Jun 1, 1959 · Name-calling)
- ["Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!": town-hall banner, Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-plane-mit-banner-koenigstein-1960/) (East Germany · 1960 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Wer hoch hinaus will, fällt tief": GDR border billboard near Mackenrode](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-wer-hoch-hinaus-will-faellt-tief-border-board-1960/) (East Germany · 1960 · Fear appeal). Content note: Caricature of a man in a suit riding a rocket on a ladder marked NATO, on a GDR border billboard.
- [Cooperative farmers watch Ulbricht's Volkskammer statement on television, Höhnstedt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-hoehnstedt-farmers-watch-ulbricht-broadcast-1960/) (East Germany · Apr 24, 1960 · Bandwagon)
- [Deutscher Fernsehfunk main building, Berlin-Adlershof](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-adlershof-television-centre-1960/) (East Germany · Dec 27, 1960 · Bandwagon)
- [FRIEDENSVERTRAG: East Berlin street board on a German peace treaty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedensvertrag-board-1961/) (East Germany · 1961 · Name-calling, Transfer). Content note: Cartoon caricature of a West German militarist figure marked with SS runes and an Iron Cross mace.
- ["Wählt die Kandidaten der Nationalen Front": election poster on an advertising pillar, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-nationale-front-poster-pillar-1961/) (East Germany · 1961 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Grenzgänger zu bedienen ist unter unserer Würde": shop poster, Königs Wusterhausen district](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-grenzgaenger-shop-poster-1961/) (East Germany · Aug 4, 1961 · Scapegoating, Manufactured consensus)
- [Leipziger Volkszeitung extra on the border-securing measures, handed out in Leipzig](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-leipzig-extrablatt-grenzsicherung-1961/) (East Germany · Aug 13, 1961 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Big lie). Content note: Photograph of a newspaper extra whose agency caption uses the official term 'Grenzsicherungsmaßnahmen' for the closing of the Berlin border.
- ["Am 13. August gab's roten Pfeffer": house-community banner, Bitterfeld](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bitterfeld-red-pepper-banner-1961/) (East Germany · Aug 29, 1961 · Name-calling, Manufactured consensus). Content note: East German banner using insult words ('agents', 'yappers') for named West Berlin figures and a radio station.
- ["Wer uns angreift wird vernichtet": GDR border sign beside the new Berlin Wall (CIA photograph)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-wer-uns-angreift-wird-vernichtet-sign-1961/) (East Germany · Nov 20, 1961 · Fear appeal)
- ["Laßt uns gemeinsam für Frieden und Verständigung wirken!": GDR peace-treaty billboard at the Friedrichstraße crossing (CIA photograph)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedensvertrag-billboard-friedrichstrasse-1961/) (East Germany · Dec 8, 1961 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating)
- ["Der deutsche Friedensvertrag bändigt den westdeutschen Militarismus!": sign at the Friedrichstraße checkpoint, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedrichstrasse-checkpoint-peace-treaty-sign-1961/) (East Germany · Dec 13, 1961 · Scapegoating, Glittering generalities)
- ["Aktuelle Kamera" interview with a detained West Berliner, Deutscher Fernsehfunk](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-aktuelle-kamera-schroeter-interview-1961/) (East Germany · Dec 21, 1961 · Testimonial, Scapegoating)
- ["Der Schutzpatron der Westberliner Spionageorganisation Lemmer": ADN photomontage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/adn-lemmer-photomontage-1962/) (East Germany · Feb 9, 1962 · Name-calling, Guilt by association)
- [Zentralbild "Terror in Südvietnam": woman and children before a burning house](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-zentralbild-terror-in-suedvietnam-mother-children-1963/) (East Germany · Jul 20, 1963 · Name-calling). Content note: Press photograph of a woman carrying a naked infant and leading a child away from a burning house, with an armed soldier behind them.
- [Berliner Funkhaus, Nalepastrasse: agency photo for "40 years of radio in Germany"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-radio-berlin-nalepastrasse-anniversary-1963/) (East Germany · Oct 28, 1963 · Glittering generalities)
- ["DDR: Das ist die Zukunft Deutschlands": grandstand board beside Berlin Cathedral](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ddr-zukunft-board-berlin-1964/) (East Germany · 1964 · Bandwagon)
- ["Die Unbesiegbaren" (The Unconquerable): Billhardt Vietnam exhibition billboard, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-die-unbesiegbaren-billhardt-billboard-1968/) (East Germany · Oct 5, 1968 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-freiheit-und-unabhaengigkeit-fuer-vietnam-appeal-1969/) (East Germany · Nov 14, 1969 · Glittering generalities)
- [Signed donation ribbons "Vietnam Solidarität" handed to the IDFF secretariat, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-dfd-solidarity-ribbons-vietnam-1971/) (East Germany · Jan 22, 1971 · Bandwagon)
- [Signed "Fahne der Solidarität" handed to a DRV diplomat, LPG Mansfeld](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-mansfeld-solidarity-flag-vietnam-1972/) (East Germany · Jul 26, 1972 · Bandwagon)
- ["Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!": hand-painted sign, Dresden funicular station](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-festival-sign-standseilbahn-dresden-1973/) (East Germany · 1973 · Glittering generalities)
- [Vietnam banners in the FDJ demonstration, 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-festival-demonstration-vietnam-banners-1973/) (East Germany · Aug 4, 1973 · Bandwagon)
- [Solidaritätsmeeting für El Salvador, Sandersdorf (Bezirk Halle)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-solidaritaetsmeeting-el-salvador-sandersdorf-1982/) (East Germany · Jan 26, 1982 · Glittering generalities, Bandwagon)
- ["Schluß mit der israelischen Aggression": FDJ students' Lebanon solidarity meeting, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-lebanon-solidarity-meeting-plaenterwald-1982/) (East Germany · Jul 22, 1982 · Name-calling)
- ["STOP - Hände weg von Nikaragua!": solidarity meeting at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-solidaritaetsmeeting-nicaragua-berlin-1983/) (East Germany · Mar 30, 1983 · Name-calling, Glittering generalities). Content note: Agency caption uses the label 'counter-revolutionary bands' for the Contras; photograph of a GDR youth solidarity meeting.
- ["STOP Raketenbeschluß!": child with a placard at a youth peace rally, Suhl](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-suhl-youth-peace-manifestation-stop-sign-1983/) (East Germany · May 20, 1983 · Fear appeal, Bandwagon)
- ["Keine neuen US-Raketen in Westeuropa!": peace manifestation, Halle](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-halle-peace-manifestation-banners-1983/) (East Germany · Oct 21, 1983 · Fear appeal)
- ["25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall": Kampfappell parade, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-kampfappell-schutzwall-anniversary-1986/) (East Germany · Aug 13, 1986 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Transfer, Big lie). Content note: Photograph of a military parade with a board using the GDR's official name for the Berlin Wall ('antifaschistischer Schutzwall'); the agency caption lists named officials.
- ["Ihr Tod ist uns Verpflichtung": Pioneers at the border-troops memorial, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-pioneers-border-guard-memorial-berlin-1986/) (East Germany · Aug 13, 1986 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Transfer)
- [East Berlin radio and television on the October 1989 demonstrations ('Black Channel'), FBIS Daily Report, 11 October 1989](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/east-berlin-radio-tv-schnitzler-black-channel-1989/) (East Germany · Oct 10, 1989 · Name-calling, Scapegoating, Ad hominem). Content note: State broadcasts calling demonstrators 'hooligans' and 'criminal elements' and denying reports of deaths at the October 1989 demonstrations; includes a commentary casting emigrants as parents who abandoned their children.
- [Neues Forum Leipzig, "Aufruf des Neuen Forum" (12 October 1989)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/neues-forum-leipzig-aufruf-1989/) (East Germany · Oct 12, 1989 · Bandwagon)