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
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).
- Date
- August 13, 1961
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency), photographer Helmut Schaar; Leipziger Volkszeitung (SED district newspaper) extra edition
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Media
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Euphemism / doublespeak
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-83561-0001, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Bundesarchiv release on Wikimedia Commons; file page states the licence)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-83561-0001 / Schaar, Helmut / CC-BY-SA 3.0 de
Text on the object
LEIPZIGER VOLKSZEITUNG [headline partly illegible]
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).
