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title: '"Halt den Schiebern! Keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung": sign beside the zonal-border railway, 1952'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/west-halt-den-schiebern-zonengrenze-1952/
description: A small oval metal sign on a post beside railway tracks at the zonal border reads 'HALT' and then 'Den Schiebern keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung'.
section: Collection
---

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[!["Halt den Schiebern! Keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung": sign beside the zonal-border railway, 1952](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/west-halt-den-schiebern-zonengrenze-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/west-halt-den-schiebern-zonengrenze-1952.jpg)

# "Halt den Schiebern! Keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung": sign beside the zonal-border railway, 1952

A small oval metal sign on a post beside railway tracks at the zonal border reads 'HALT' and then 'Den Schiebern keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung'. 'Schieber' (profiteer, black-marketeer) is a label applied to the people the sign addresses, and 'Soviet armament' is the named end use. The tell is the loaded noun in a public notice (name-calling).

## Text on the object

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

```
HALT
DEN SCHIEBERN
KEINE WAREN FÜR DIE
SOWJETISCHE
RÜSTUNG
```

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

```
HALT
TO THE PROFITEERS
NO GOODS FOR THE
SOVIET
ARMAMENT
```

Read from the committed 500 px image and matched against the sign text in the Commons archive description. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

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