'Deutscher, hilf den Frieden erhalten' (German, help preserve peace): banner on a state farm, Petkus, East Germany
A painted board on the brick wall of a farm building reads 'Deutscher, hilf den Frieden erhalten, für die Welt ein besseres Leben gestalten.' The photograph was issued with a caption stating that the struggle for peace is taken for granted on the state farm 'as the banner shows'. The board is a rhymed slogan built from virtue words ('peace', 'a better life') and gives no programme, actor or measure.
- Date
- November 18, 1950
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Volksgut (state farm) Petkus, East Germany; photographed for the press agency Illus / ADN Zentralbild
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- German Democratic Republic
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-08675-0006), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-08675-0006 / Kuhl / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
Deutscher, hilf den Frieden erhalten, für die Welt ein besseres Leben gestalten.
German, help preserve peace, shape a better life for the world.
The Bundesarchiv credit strip along the bottom edge of the image ('Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-08675-0006 / Foto: Kuhl | 18. November 1950') is archive metadata, not part of the object, and is omitted here.
