"…gegen die amerikanischen Kriegsvorbereitungen": banner on a congress hall, Rössing photograph
A long banner across the front of a turreted building ends '…gegen die amerikanischen Kriegsvorbereitungen', with flags above and a 'ZOO' sign on the tower. War is announced as being prepared by one named country, and the viewer is asked to join an alliance against it.
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Nationale Front (per the Fotothek title, which names National Front posters on the hall); photographed by Roger and Renate Rössing (Deutsche Fotothek)
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Deutsche Fotothek (SLUB Dresden), df_roe-neg_0006073_006, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Deutsche Fotothek release on Wikimedia Commons; file page states the licence)
Deutsche Fotothek / Roger und Renate Rössing, df_roe-neg_0006073_006 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE
Text on the object
[illegible] das Kampfbündnis der internationalen Arbeiterklasse gegen die amerikanischen Kriegsvorbereitungen.
[illegible] the fighting alliance of the international working class against the American war preparations.
Read from a magnified crop; the opening word(s) at the left end are lost in the building's shadow, and the letters 'Kampfbündnis' are read with moderate confidence.
