"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).
- Date
- November 14, 1969
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- National Front of the GDR and GDR mass organisations; photographed by the state news agency Zentralbild
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-H1114-0025-001, 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 Franke, Klaus)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1114-0025-001 / Franke, Klaus / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
Text on the object
FREIHEIT UND UNABHÄNGIGKEIT FÜR VIETNAM
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.
