Atlantic Pact float in a peace demonstration, Leipzig
A truck carries a large globe with a top-hatted figure in striped trousers sprawled across it and a label reading 'ATLANTIK-PAKT', while marchers and a brass band pass a shop front. The slogan on the truck side frames the struggle for peace as a fight for the survival of the whole German people, which presents the pact as a threat to survival.
- Date
- 1950
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Demonstration organiser not named in the record; truck marked MAS (Maschinen-Ausleih-Station); photographed in Leipzig by Roger and Renate Rössing (Deutsche Fotothek)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- German Democratic Republic
- Leader
- Walter Ulbricht
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- 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_0003140_002, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 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_0003140_002 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE
Text on the object
Der Kampf um den Frieden ist der Lebenskampf unseres gesamten deutschen Volkes ATLANTIK-PAKT MAS
The struggle for peace is the struggle for survival of our whole German people ATLANTIC PACT MAS
The slogan on the truck side is only partly legible at this size; its wording is taken from the transcription on the Commons file page, which records it with long-s spelling ('iſt', 'unſeres', 'geſamten', 'deutſchen'). 'ATLANTIK-PAKT' (label on the globe) and 'MAS' (truck door) were read from the image. Other signage on the shop fronts is not transcribed.
