---
title: '"Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-freiheit-und-unabhaengigkeit-fuer-vietnam-appeal-1969/
description: Delegates sit at tables set with papers and flowers in a hall in East Berlin.
section: Collection
---

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[!["Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-freiheit-und-unabhaengigkeit-fuer-vietnam-appeal-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-freiheit-und-unabhaengigkeit-fuer-vietnam-appeal-1969.jpg)

# "Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin

Delegates sit at tables set with papers and flowers in a hall in East Berlin. Behind the presidium hangs a white banner in large grey capitals reading 'Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam'; small flags of the DRV and the GDR stand on the table. The banner names two virtue words as the cause and gives no specific demand, so assent is requested to the words themselves (glittering generalities).

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
FREIHEIT UND
UNABHÄNGIGKEIT
FÜR VIETNAM
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
FREEDOM AND
INDEPENDENCE
FOR VIETNAM
```

Banner text only; the archive's caption line at the lower left (Bild number, photographer, date) is the archive's and not part of the object.

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