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title: '"25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall": Kampfappell parade, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-kampfappell-schutzwall-anniversary-1986/
description: A parade of uniformed units in steel helmets passes a red-draped reviewing stand on a Berlin boulevard.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photograph of a military parade with a board using the GDR's official name for the Berlin Wall ('antifaschistischer Schutzwall'); the agency caption lists named officials. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall": Kampfappell parade, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-kampfappell-schutzwall-anniversary-1986.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-kampfappell-schutzwall-anniversary-1986.jpg)

# "25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall": Kampfappell parade, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin

A parade of uniformed units in steel helmets passes a red-draped reviewing stand on a Berlin boulevard. Behind the stand is a large white board showing the Brandenburg Gate and the GDR flag with the dates 1961 and 1986 and the words "25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall". Flags hang from the balconies of the apartment block. The wording gives a border fortification the name of a defence against fascism, and the anniversary board treats it as a milestone to be celebrated.

## Text on the object

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

```
1961 1986
25 Jahre
antifaschistischer
Schutzwall
```

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

```
1961 1986
25 years
anti-fascist
protective rampart
```

Read from the board at left of the committed image; the GDR flag and the Brandenburg Gate appear above the dates.

[← "三民主義統一中國" (Three Principles of the People Unites China): sign on Dadan, Kinmen](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kinmen-three-principles-unites-china-sign-1986/) ["Ihr Tod ist uns Verpflichtung": Pioneers at the border-troops memorial, Berlin →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-pioneers-border-guard-memorial-berlin-1986/)

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