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title: Leipziger Volkszeitung extra on the border-securing measures, handed out in Leipzig
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-leipzig-extrablatt-grenzsicherung-1961/
description: A young man in a white shirt hands out folded copies of a newspaper to three youths and an older woman on a Leipzig street.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Photograph of a newspaper extra whose agency caption uses the official term 'Grenzsicherungsmaßnahmen' for the closing of the Berlin border. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Leipziger Volkszeitung extra on the border-securing measures, handed out in Leipzig](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-leipzig-extrablatt-grenzsicherung-1961.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-leipzig-extrablatt-grenzsicherung-1961.jpg)

# Leipziger Volkszeitung extra on the border-securing measures, handed out in Leipzig

A young man in a white shirt hands out folded copies of a newspaper to three youths and an older woman on a Leipzig street. The masthead reads Leipziger Volkszeitung, and the headline of the extra is only partly legible. The agency caption calls the closing of the border to West Berlin "Grenzsicherungsmaßnahmen" (border-securing measures).

## Text on the object

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

```
LEIPZIGER VOLKSZEITUNG
[headline partly illegible]
```

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

```
LEIPZIG PEOPLE'S NEWSPAPER
[headline partly illegible]
```

Only the masthead is legible in the committed image; the agency caption supplies the wording "Grenzsicherungsmaßnahmen der DDR" (border-securing measures of the GDR).

[← "Grenzgänger zu bedienen ist unter unserer Würde": shop poster, Königs Wusterhausen district](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-grenzgaenger-shop-poster-1961/) ["Am 13. August gab's roten Pfeffer": house-community banner, Bitterfeld →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bitterfeld-red-pepper-banner-1961/)

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