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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Poster: "In the 40th year of the GDR" [1/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

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1989
Gotha, Berg/Hauptmarkt
Created By: Klaus Peter Albrecht

License: Creative Commons License

Building front with a portrait of the then Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR, Erich Honecker, a GDR flag and a poster commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the GDR

Depicts

banner (flag), building, flag of the GDR, photography, portrait, poster, two persons

People/Organizations

Erich Honecker

Places

Gotha

Text in image

Im 40. Jahr der DDR - / Höchste Leistungen / zum Wohle des Volkes / und für den Frieden - / Vorwärts zum XII. Parteitag / der SED!

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)