"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).
- Date
- 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Sponsor not named on the sign; photographed in the West German press-office holdings (Bundesarchiv B 145)
- Country
- West Germany
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Adenauer Government
- Leader
- Konrad Adenauer
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), B 145 Bild-F000250-0011, 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, B 145 Bild-F000250-0011 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
HALT DEN SCHIEBERN KEINE WAREN FÜR DIE SOWJETISCHE RÜSTUNG
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.
