"Unsere Antwort an Provokateure": Berlin march for the government after 17 June 1953
Young marchers in the Karl-Marx-Allee (formerly Stalinallee) carry a banner reading 'Unsere Antwort an Provokateure: Festes Vertrauen zur Regierung!', with a dense field of red flags and a portrait behind them. The banner answers the strikers of 17 June by labelling them 'Provokateure' (the name-calling tell), and the agency caption backs it with 'tens of thousands' of Berliners expressing trust, a crowd count standing in for a reason (bandwagon).
- Date
- June 26, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency), photographer Peter Heinz Junge; the march organisers and banner makers are not named in the record
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Gdr Uprising 1953
- Techniques
- Name-callingBandwagon
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-20115-0002, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Bundesarchiv release via Wikimedia Commons; file page states licence and attribution)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-20115-0002 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
UNSERE ANTWORT AN PROVOKATEURE: FESTES VERTRAUEN ZUR REGIERUNG !
OUR ANSWER TO PROVOCATEURS: FIRM TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT!
Read from the committed image. Only the banner text is transcribed; the portrait and flags carry no legible text.
