Poster
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1948 Our rallying cry:/Enough of improvisations/
Fulfil the half-year plan - forwards under our own steam!
November 1949; offset printing
(Published by the Executive Committee of the SED)
h 83.5, w 59.
Inv. no.: P90/369
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15 MAY 1949/VOTE For PEACE NOT WAR!/ VOTE
AT THE 3RD GERMAN PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
1949; offset printing
h 59, w 41.7.
Inv. no.: P90/365
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NATIONAL FRONT: FOR UNITY and a just PEACE
1 September 1949 Day of Peace
1949; offset printing
(Design: Schubert Hellerau; published by Landesvolksausschuß Sachsen
für Einheit Deutschlands und gerechten Frieden; printed by Sachsenverlag,
Druckerei- und Verlags-GmbH, Dresden)
h 83, w 59.5.
Inv. no.: P90/378
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Caricatures for the May demonstrations
April 1950; offset printing
(Published by SED Landesvorstand Sachsen, Mass Agitation Dept; printed
by Sachsenverlag, Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Dresden),
h 83, w 117.5.
Inv. no.: P90/384
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Come out on 1st May! The international action
unit of the proletariat will destroy the Plans of the warmongerers!
May 1950; offset printing
(Design: K. F.; published by FDGB, Saxony Landesvorstand, May Committee),
h 27.7, w 59.5.
Inv. no.: P90/370
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Be vigilant! / Destroy the potato beetle /
Defend the peace / Safeguard our economic reconstruction Saxony regional
committee of the National Front of Democratic Germany
July 1950; offset printing
(Published by: Landesausschuß Sachsen der nationalen Front des demokratischen
Deutschland)
h 86, w 61.
Inv. no.: P90/383
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OUR PATH TO PEACE AND PROSPERITY
German-Soviet friendship thwarts all the Plans of the warmongers
1. Let us never forget the sufferings
that German armies inflicted an the Soviet Union. Let us never forget
that the heroic Soviet army liberated not only its own homeland but also
our fatherland from the fascist barbarians.
2. It took enormous efforts an the part of Soviet citizens to heal the
wounds of war. That our people should make reparations for at least a
fraction of the damage caused should be apparent to all honest Germans.
3. Hitlers come and go, the German people, the German state, remains.
These words of Generalissimo Stalin have been proved true. The establishment
of our antifascist democratic order has created the foundations for a
unified, democratic and peace-loving Germany...
4. ... while in the west of our homeland the Anglo-American and French
occupying powers are, at the behest of American monopolism and with the
aid of the puppets in Bonn, starting to establish a colony, an assembly
point from which to launch a new war.
5. The harmony and resolution shown by the working masses in the German
Democratic Republic in the struggle for peace has led to renewed evidence
of the trust and friendship of the Soviet Union.
6. Facts speak clearly and every honest German knows who is the enemy
and who the friend of the German people.
1950; offset printing
(Published by Amt für Information der DDR, Berlin; printed by Ratsdruckerei,
Dresden)
h 83.8, w 53.8.
Inv. no.: P90/375
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THWART THE PLANS OF THE WARMONGERS (Extracts)
Harry Truman broke with the policy of friendly
cooperation with the USSR and became the chief spokesman of the warmongers
who, by means of a bloody atomic war, seek to establish the worldwide
domination of American imperialism.
Konrad Adenauer. The President of the West German colonial "Republic"
is an old and trusted mainstay of the war-hungry industrialists. Today
he is in the Service of Wall Street and carries out their orders: the
establishment of an army of German mercenaries and the transformation
of Germany into a battlefield for the fight against the Soviet Union,
the people's democracies and the German Democratic Republic.
Karl Spalke. Anyone who experienced the air raid an Dresden an 23 February
1945 cannot but hate the American warmongers.
1950; offset printing
(Graphic design: KRAMA; published by Gesellschaft für DSF; printed
by Druckerei Tägliche Rundschau, Berlin)
h 59.5, w 84.
Inv. no.: P90/376
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WE HAVE THE POWER to prevent a war
1950; offset printing
(Printed by VEB Berliner Druckhaus, Berlin, edition: 50,000)
h 84, w 59.
Inv. no.: P 90/374
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Schumacher calls for American tanks against
Germany's youth.
On 5.2. 1950 Schumacher told a meeting of
the SPD executive committee in Bonn: "The only way to prevent any
possible incident is to ensure allied tanks are positioned an all the
approach roads." Enough of that, say the young people of Germany!
Away with warmongering! We don't want to be the cannon fodder of the American
millionaires! German youth wants: peace - unity - reconstruction!
1950; offset printing (Published by the SED Executive Committee; printed
by Universalverlag GmbH, Leipzig)
h 59.3, w 83.8.
Inv. no.: P90/393
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FORCE THE PEACE
1950; offset printing
(Design: Rene Graetz; published by Amt für Information, Berlin; printed
by Ratsdruckerei Dresden)
h 82.8, w 57.7.
Inv. no.: P 60/312
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American High Commissioner McCloy on 4 July
1950: /"I feel at home in Germany!" Germany replies: "Yankee,
go home!"
August 1950; offset printing
(Design: Elizabeth Shaw/ Rene Graetz; published by Amt für Information,
Berlin; printed by Ratsdruckerei Dresden)
h 83, w 58.4.
Inv. no.: P61/655
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Dorothy wants atomic war
At present the American air force could destroy
Russia's industrial centres without danger of retaliation... We should
seize this short moment of superiority. Today and not four years from
now is the time for this conflict. These are the words of the American
journalist, Dorothy Thompson, chairwoman of the reactionary women's organization
Woman. This is the language of the enemies of mankind/German mothers say:/Enough
of warmongering! / No new atomic powers! / We Germans want: / peace, unity,
reconstruction A German mother in front of the victims of an Anglo-American
air attack an Cologne.
1950; offset printing
(Published by the Executive Committee of the SED; printed by Universalverlag
GmbH, Leipzig)
h 59.5, w 84.5.
Inv. no.: P90/366
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To learn from the Soviet people means to
learn to overcome./A war pact with Washington will bring misery and death,/friendship
with the Soviet Union peace and bread! Out of the way, you warmongers!
1950; offset printing (Published by Amt für Information der DDR using
original Soviet posters; printed by Sachsenverlag Werk Leipzig, edition:
21,000)
h 81.5, w 59.
Inv. no.: P90/377
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YANKEE BEETLES ARE SET TO DESTROY OUR HARVEST./THEY
THREATEN YOUR LIVELIHOOD!
Destroying the potato beetle is a way of fighting the war plans of the
imperialists. Your struggle against the pernicious pest from the USA is
a STRUGGLE FOR PEACE!
1950; lithograph
(Published by Amt für Information der Landesregierung Thüringen;
printed by Thüringer Volksverlag, Erfurt)
h 56.1, w 41.9.
Inv. no.: P 61/646
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EUROPEAN WORKERS' CONFERENCE against the REMILITARIZATION
OF GERMANY 23 to 25 March in Berlin
1951; offset printing
h 58.7, w 83.7.
Inv. no.: P90/381
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CONSPIRACY AGAINST GERMANY
The German people say no! The German people will not be won round in support
of the yankee war! All German people demand: Away with the Adenauer clique!
Away with the American warmongers! (front cover)
September 1951; offset printing
(Design: Hammann; printed by Ratsdruckerei Dresden, edition: 21,000)
h 85.7, w 122.
Inv. no.: P 90/389
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CONSPIRACY AGAINST GERMANY
American millionaires, Adenauer, Nazi generals and Schuhmacher want to
use young Germans as yankee cannon fodder against the east. Convene the
All-German Conference for freedom and unity!
October 1951; offset printing (Design: Hammann; published by Amt für
Information der DDR; printed by MDV Calbe, Saale, edition: 21,000)
h 83.4, w 58.3.
Inv. no.: 61/638
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CONSPIRACY AGAINST GERMANY
Take the iron cross and die for the American millionaires. That's what
the Germans are supposed to do! /That's what the American warmongers and
their accomplices want! / Nazi General Friessner, who recently had a confidential
meeting with Schumacher "in a satisfactory atmosphere", declared
he knew "how much easier it made it for dying soldiers to prepare
to meet their death if in their final minutes an earth the iron cross
was pinned to their chests: "That is the language of warmongers!
All Germans cry: Enough! All Germans demand: The convening of the All-German
Conference!
October 1951; offset printing
(Design: Hammann; printed by Ratsdruckerei Dresden, edition:21,000)
h 86, w 61.3.
Inv. no.: P 90/387
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THEY WILL BE SMASHED BY GERMAN UNITY!
Shattered, o Captain, is your heim /At thirty-nine knots/you speed towards
the realms of death (alter Walt Whitmann) (back cover)
November 1951; offset printing
(Design: H. Lehher; published by Amt für Information der DDR; printed
by Sachsenverlag Dresden, edition: 21,000)
h 84.3, w. 59.5.
Inv. no.: P90/385
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