"STOP Raketenbeschluß!": child with a placard at a youth peace rally, Suhl
A small girl in a crowd of young people holds a printed placard: 'STOP', a vertical line reading 'Weg mit dem ... Raketenbeschluß!' (away with the ... missile decision), and a drawing of a black missile whose nose is a fanged head beside a white star. The fanged-missile drawing gives the danger a monster's face, and the agency caption offers a count of 25,000 young people in place of a stated reason.
- Date
- May 20, 1983
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency), photographer Helmut Schaar; placard maker and rally organiser not named in the record
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- German Democratic Republic
- Leader
- Erich Honecker
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Euromissile Crisis
- Techniques
- Fear appealBandwagon
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-1983-0520-018, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Bundesarchiv release via Wikimedia Commons; file page states licence and attribution)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1983-0520-018 / Schaar, Helmut / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
STOP [vertical line, read from bottom to top:] Weg mit dem [hidden by the child's hand] Raketenbeschluß!
STOP [vertical line, read from bottom to top:] Away with the [hidden by the child's hand] missile decision!
Read from the committed image and a magnified crop of the placard. The vertical line runs up the left edge of the sign; a word or more between 'dem' and 'Raketenbeschluß' is covered by the child's hand and is not supplied here.
