"100% unserer Belegschaft sind gegen Remilitarisierung": factory gate boards, Werk Fortschritt II, Berlin
Women leaving a factory pass a gate board stating that '100% of our workforce are against remilitarisation' (the last word is cut off by a passer-by), under a facade banner 'Fünfjahrplan Friedensplan'. A unanimous figure is put on public display as if counted, and the plan is named a peace plan.
- Date
- December 22, 1950
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Workforce and management of Werk Fortschritt II, Greifswalder Straße, Berlin (sponsor of the boards not named); photographer Gustav Köhler for Illus
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-09061-0002, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Bundesarchiv release on Wikimedia Commons; file page states the licence)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-09061-0002 / Köhler, Gustav / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
FÜNFJAHRPLAN [5-emblem] FRIEDENSPLAN — 100 % — UNSERER BELEGSCHAFT SIND GEGEN REMILITARISI[erung, cut off] 212/213
FIVE-YEAR PLAN [5-emblem] PEACE PLAN — 100% — OF OUR WORKFORCE ARE AGAINST REMILITARISI[ation, cut off] 212/213
Read from the 782 px image and a magnified crop. The final word is hidden by a woman's white bundle after 'REMILITARISI'; the completion in the translation is bracketed. '212/213' is the building number.
