East German Poster Database

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• Weg mit dem NATO-Raketenbeschluß!/STOP

  Poster is yellow with black silhouette at left of a rocket launcher with the front transformed into a gaping, teethed skull. Title in black at top reads "Away with the NATO Rocket Decision!/STOP".

• BROT statt tot/"Für Frieden und Humanismus, gegen die Gefahr eines Kernwaffenkrieges"

  Poster is a large color photgraph of a busher of wheat with small black and white photograph of a mushroom cloud in top right (shape is similar to bushel). Title in white at top reads "Bread instead of dead/'For peace and humanism against the danger of nuclear war'".

• Das ist sozialistisches Tempo/Wohnstadt süd in Halle/Baubeginn Januar 1959/Bauabschluss 1962 = 3000 Wohnungen für die Bevölkerung/1 Jahr später/Durch die Lösung der ökonomischen Hauptaufgabe hindern wir die bonner Atomkrieger ihre Angriffspläne zu verwirk

  Poster title begins "That is the socialist tempo/Southern residential town" and shows three black and white photographs of apartments under construction. Title continues "Construction begins January 1959/Construction completed 1962 = 3000 apartments for the population". Underneath title continues "1 year later" and shows photograph of the completed apartment complex. Title reads "By solving the main economic task, we prevent the attack plans of the nuclear warmongers in Bonn from being realized".

• Wir fordern Weltabrüstung

  Poster features a blue globe with the white outline of a dove superimposed. Beneath is a black and white collage of multinational crowds. Title reads "We call for World Disarmament."

• Apokalyptische Visionen: 3 Jahre Siebdruck

  Poster is a silkscreen print. Shows famous photo of Phan Thị Kim Phúc with a red nuclear symbol in the center of her chest. Image is superimposed on gold and black medieval apocalyptic imagery. Title reads "Apocalyptic Visons: 3 Years Silkscreen: Jürgen Gottschalk". Information about the artist is printed on the reverse.

• Die Welt von Kernwaffen befreien!

  Poster is dark red with white type, features close-up of child's face on left. Title reads "Free the world of nuclear weapons!"

• [no title]

  This poster shows a mass of people pushing through a gap in the Berlin Wall in an attempt to get to the West. On the other side of the Wall is a field of garbage and toxic waste.

• Das kleine China bestraft das große Vietnam?

  This poster is black with red and yellow text. A yellow bullet enters the poster from the top and goes through the yellow text.

• Gilt überall

  This poster has a newspaper article about nuclear war in the center. The title appears below the image of the article.

• Trade Mark Peace - 1986-International Year of Peace

  The white poster shows a triangle with a nuclear missile snapped in half in the center. Surrounding the triangle are the words "Trade Mark Peace." Artist signed on front, with stamp on back identifying artist and address.

• (In Russian)

  This chart shows American armored vehicles and was probably used for identification purposes. This is part of a series of charts on NATO weaponry.