Vietnam banners in the FDJ demonstration, 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, East Berlin
Marchers in matching dark shirts wave small flags below a long banner photograph of a smiling woman and baby and hand-lettered placards. One reads 'Wir protestieren gegen den ständigen Bruch des Pariser Abkommens', another 'VIETNAM ... Basar'; a third at the right edge begins 'Unsere Solidarität'. The mass of people and the shared placards are offered as the weight behind the protest (bandwagon).
- Date
- August 4, 1973
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Free German Youth (FDJ) and the organisers of the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students; photographed by the state news agency ADN-Zentralbild
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Bandwagon
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-M0804-0753, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (Commons template CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE; Bundesarchiv donation, photographer Gahlbeck, Friedrich)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-M0804-0753 / Gahlbeck, Friedrich / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
Text on the object
[festival emblem sign:] ... Die Jugend der Welt Wir protestieren GEGEN DEN STÄNDIGEN BRUCH DES PARISER ABKOMMENS VIETNAM [illegible] Basar Unsere Solid[arität] mit [cut off] [further placards illegible]
[festival emblem sign:] ... The youth of the world We protest AGAINST THE CONSTANT BREACH OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT VIETNAM [illegible] Bazaar Our Solid[arity] with [cut off] [further placards illegible]
Read from the 1280 px image. The right-hand placard is cut by the frame; the word before 'Basar' on the dark banner is not legible; the archive's caption line at the lower left is not part of the object.
