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  • Vacant hospital beds of the German Red Cross hospital (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz- DRK)) in Berlin. With over 3.5 million members, it is the third largest Red Cross society in the world. The German Red Cross offers a wide range of services within and outside Germany. GRC provides 52 hospitals and provides also 75% of the blood supply in Germany.
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  • German troops are ready to embark into a stationary Chinook helicopter during battle exercises in east Anglia, England. Waiting for the signal to climb aboard, they wear full battle-dress and camouflage for the English forest. Joining a joint force of British and foreign regiments, these Germans are distinctive by their helmets, still shaped much like their WW2 counterparts.
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  • Striking a light in an outdoor café, a young businessman puts a match to his cigarette as a colleague talks in Frankfurt.  Cupping his hand over the lit end, against a shrill wind, the man inhales the nicotine-rich smoke to enjoy another cigarette. On the table in front, an empty glass of German Pilsener, its froth still clinging to the sides of the glass showing that this otherwise healthy gentleman is abusing his body with the addictive tobacco and the thirst-quenching taste of fine beer that has a high percentage of alcohol and rich in carbohydrates. He is smartly dresses, with cufflinks, a good watch and neat hair. In the background are other drinkers and their glasses on tables at this sociable street corner in the city’s financial district, a symbolic powerhouse of economic recovery that Germany built in the post-war era.
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  • A 1960s aerial view from a bridge, of a German autobahn carrying VW Beetles, a Mercedes and trucks, in 1968, in North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany.
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  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Awaiting the call-up from superior officers, a phalanx of German riot police stand in their ranks, with shields resting on the ground of a central Berlin park. Their orders will be to keep control of protesters in the former eastern sector of the German city, in the months after the fall of the Wall and the communist state, the GDR (German Democratic Republic) or DDR. Because Germany is now one country (though reunification itself has yet to happen), West German officers of the Bundespolizei (BPOL) which is the uniformed federal police force of Germany, wait patiently for orders from their western masters. The Bundespolizei consists of around 40,000 personnel, from border control, aviation wings, civil servants, immigration services and riot control (Beweissicherungs and Festnahmeeinheit).
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state the German Democratic Republic, a Trabant is worked on at the company factory, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. The East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke was at Zwickau in Saxony. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time.
    GDR_trabant02-15-06-1990.jpg
  • A WW2-era German secret Enigma code machine is displayed in the Locarno Dining Room, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The Enigma machine is a piece of hardware invented by a German and used by Britains codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years. An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed.
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  • A WW2-era German secret Enigma code machine is displayed in the Locarno Dining Room, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The Enigma machine is a piece of hardware invented by a German and used by Britains codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years. An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed.
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  • Tourists pose for pictures in front of the Reichstag Building on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The building was constructed in 1890 for the German Empire a major German historical site, it now houses the German Parliament.
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  • Tourists pose for pictures in front of the Reichstag Building on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The building was constructed in 1890 for the German Empire a major German historical site, it now houses the German Parliament.
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  • The European Union and German flags hang side-by-side outside the German Krakow General Consulate office, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008.
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  • The EU flag hangs limply alongside the old German world Prussian eagle near the balcony of Frankfurt's Rathaus or Town hall in historic Romerberg Square. The yellow stars formed into a circle of the European Union member states lie on a background of blue but the bronze green eagle harks back to a previous era of German politics and culture. The state of Prussia developed from the State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] This "Prussian Eagle" remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
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  • A stone carving of the German-born news tycoon, Paul Julius Reuter, seen at lunchtime in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron de Reuter) (21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), a German entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency. Reuter founded Reuters, one of the major financial news agencies of the world. On 17 March 1857, Reuter was naturalised as a British subject, and on 7 September 1871, the German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conferred a barony (Freiherr) on Julius Reuter. The title was later "confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England"
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  • A stone carving of the German-born news tycoon, Paul Julius Reuter, seen at lunchtime in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron de Reuter) (21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), a German entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency. Reuter founded Reuters, one of the major financial news agencies of the world. On 17 March 1857, Reuter was naturalised as a British subject, and on 7 September 1871, the German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conferred a barony (Freiherr) on Julius Reuter. The title was later "confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England"
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  • Emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
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  • First Aid kits in amergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh242-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh248-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Blankets in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh217-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Tents in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh189-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Maternity tent mock-up in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh176-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Latrines in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh207-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Plain stairwell in the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh122-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh141-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh152-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • A worker's tabard hangs on a hook at the German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh106-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • A worker's tabard hangs on a hook at the German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh101-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Exterior of the German Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt) on Paul-Loeb-Allee, Berlin Mitte, a federal agency serving the executive office of the Chancellor, the head of the German federal government. The current Chancellery building (opened in the spring of 2001) was designed by Charlotte Frank and Axel Schultes and was built by a joint venture of Royal BAM Group's subsidiary Wayss & Freytag and the Spanish Acciona from concrete and glass in an essentially postmodern style, though some elements of modernist style are evident. Occupying 12,000 square meters (129,166 square feet), it is also one of the largest government headquarters buildings in the world. By comparison, the new Chancellery building is eight times the size of the White House.
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  • Looking across the lawns to the German Chancellery building housing the staff and offices of the German Chancellery, also know as the Bundeskanzleramt on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh157-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • With the British and German flags behind, British Prime Minister, John Major and Chancellor Helmut Kohl during the joint press conference during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
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  • German Chancellor Helmut Kohl during the joint press conference during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars await buyers outside the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a pair of hands cup some nuts that go towards the construction of Trabant cars at the car factory in the former East Germany DDR where the last Trabants await buyers outside the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
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  • An EU flag and the Prussian Eagle sit side-by-side, on 16th May 2000, in Frankfurt, Germany. The EU flag hangs limply alongside the old German world Prussian eagle near the balcony of Frankfurts Rathaus or Town hall in historic Romerberg Square. The yellow stars formed into a circle of the European Union member states lie on a background of blue but the bronze green eagle harks back to a previous era of German politics and culture. The state of Prussia developed from the State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] This Prussian Eagle remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Trabant car sits wrecked on the corner of Mollstrasse and Hans-Beimler-Strasse in east Berlin former DDR, on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars go through the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
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  • Roadside sign marking the place where Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron was killed by enemy fire at Vaux-sur-Somme in 1918. Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (1892 – 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. He is considered the top ace of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.<br />
Richthofen was fatally wounded just after 11:00 am on 21 April 1918, while flying over Morlancourt Ridge, near the Somme River. At the time, the Baron had been pursuing (at very low altitude) a Sopwith Camel piloted by a novice Canadian pilot, Lieutenant Wilfrid "Wop" May of No. 209 Squadron, Royal Air Force
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  • High up on an exposed balcony, German city workers smoke outside of their office tower block in Frankfurt's financial district. Surrounded by the grey surfaces of industrial concrete, the workers appear in perspective as tiny compared to the gardeur and height of their scyscraper tower block.
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  • A new Trabant car shell is lifted by forklift from a truck at the East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.  A worker carefully manoeuvres the unfinished bodywork into a crate where other vehicles await completion on the production line. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time
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  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Entrance to the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Entrance to the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Actors in US and Soviet army uniforms hold flags to recount German history during the second world war and later, the cold war - beneath the Brandenburg Gate in Unter den Linden in central Berlin, Germany. The site is near the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Here also, Berlin was separated by the occupying sectors of US, British, French and Soviet forces after WW2. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
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  • German bratwurst stall at the Christmas market doing a roaring trade as people queue for the grilled sausages. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Men enjoying drinking beer from a German Christmas market stall. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Girls hanging out chatting next to a German Christmas market beer stall. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state the German Democratic Republic, the wreckage of a Trabant car still remains, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany.
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  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Empty gurneys are seen during a quiet period during a day in the life of this medical ward. The sign points visitors and staff to the X-Ray department and a childrens' help reception. The building is spotlessly clean with white walls and polished floors, helping dedeat the presence of bacteria and hence, infections. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • German bratwurst stall at the Christmas market doing a roaring trade as people queue for the grilled sausages and squeeze ketchup and mustard onto their food. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20131214_south bank bratwurst stall_...jpg
  • German bratwurst stall at the Christmas market doing a roaring trade as people queue for the grilled sausages. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20131214_south bank bratwurst stall_...jpg
  • German bratwurst stall at the Christmas market doing a roaring trade as people queue for the grilled sausages. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20131214_south bank bratwurst stall_...jpg
  • The statue of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) the German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright in Frankfurt's financial district - its skyscrapers from a new era rising behind. In Friedrich von Schillers honor the city of Frankfurt errected this Memorial on May 9, 1864 at the Hauptwache. The bronze is styled by Johannes Dielmann at the cost of 14,070 Gulden and 17 Kreuzer. 1938 the bronze was moved to the Rathenauplatz. Since 1955 it is situated here at the Taunusanlage.
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  • High up on an outdoor roof terrace, Deutsche Bank city workers admire the view from their office tower block in Frankfurt. Standing at the very top floor of this German bank, the people look in perspective very small as they peer out over the cityscape beyond. They must have a sense of acute vertigo and dizziness as they lean against the parapet that lacks any safeguards or barriers.
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  • A high-rise office tower that dominates an otherwise flat cityscape in Frankfurt's financial district. With the rest of the German city spreading out into the distance, this scyscraper rises into the sky providing jobs for the administrative and financial private sector.
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany.
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars come off the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a lady shovels East German Lignite coal briketts left outside her home, on 1st June 1990, in Aue, Saxony, eastern Germany former DDR. The coal was delivered as Briketts and was either Lignite or Braunkohle, imported from either Poland or northern Czech Republic.
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  • Paediatric nurse and humanitarian aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany. Schuh has seen service in Afghanistan and West Africa (Ebola) and is seen here outside the Berlin DRK hospital's entrance. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Empty gurneys are seen during a quiet period during a day in the life of this medical ward. The sign points visitors and staff to the X-Ray department and a childrens' help reception. The building is spotlessly clean with white walls and polished floors, helping dedeat the presence of bacteria and hence, infections. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Paediatric nurse and humanitarian aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany. Schuh has seen service in Afghanistan and West Africa (Ebola) and is seen here in the Berlin DRK hospital's A&E department. <br />
From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Paediatric nurse and humanitarian aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany. Schuh has seen service in Afghanistan and West Africa (Ebola) and is seen here in the Berlin DRK hospital's A&E department. <br />
From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_victims02-07-04-2013_1.jpg
  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_victims01-07-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of Bernauer Strasse, showing a section of preserved Berlin wall where East Germans were killed while trying to cross the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_bernauer03-07-04-2013_1.jpg
  • President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, leaving Europe House, the European Parliament Liason office in the UK as Anti Brexit protesters shout encouragement and support to her in Westminster before her meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the impending negotioations and timeframe for the UKs withdrawal from the EU, on 8th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and the President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019.
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  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once formed part of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the USAAF's 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
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  • A deserted landscape of a street and overgrown paths and empty housing in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Modern medical equipment in the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), A&E department Berlin, Germany. Against the wall, ready for use, is the specialist paraphenalia used to save lives when patients and victims are brought in after accidents in the Berlin area.
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  • Convenor of the British anti-war organisation Stop the War Coalition Lindsey German speaks at a demonstration opposite Westminster Abbey organised by campaigners from Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament CND and other religious groups as a national service of Thanksgiving to mark fifty years of the Continuous at Sea Deterrent CASD takes place at Westminster Abbey on 3rd May 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Supermarket chain Lidl store at night in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Kings Heath is a suburb of Birmingham, three miles south of the city centre. It is the next suburb south from Moseley. Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG is a German global discount supermarket chain, that operates over 10,000 stores across Europe and the US. It belongs to Dieter Schwarz, who also owns the store chains Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland.
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  • Supermarket chain Aldi Local store in Camden Town on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Aldi is the common brand of two German family-owned discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. With its low price, discount approach, Aldi is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
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  • Supermarket chain Aldi Local store in Camden Town on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Aldi is the common brand of two German family-owned discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. With its low price, discount approach, Aldi is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
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  • Supermarket chain Lidl store on Old Kent Road on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG is a German global discount supermarket chain, that operates over 10,000 stores across Europe and the US. It belongs to Dieter Schwarz, who also owns the store chains Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland. With its low price, discount approach, Lidl is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
    20200109_lidl_005.jpg
  • Supermarket chain Lidl store on Old Kent Road on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG is a German global discount supermarket chain, that operates over 10,000 stores across Europe and the US. It belongs to Dieter Schwarz, who also owns the store chains Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland. With its low price, discount approach, Lidl is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
    20200109_lidl_002.jpg
  • Supermarket chain Lidl store on Old Kent Road on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG is a German global discount supermarket chain, that operates over 10,000 stores across Europe and the US. It belongs to Dieter Schwarz, who also owns the store chains Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland. With its low price, discount approach, Lidl is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
    20200109_lidl_003.jpg
  • Supermarket chain Aldi store on Old Kent Road on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Aldi is the common brand of two German family-owned discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. With its low price, discount approach, Aldi is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
    20200109_aldi_002.jpg
  • Protester Steve Bray sings a song in support of the EU as President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen leaves Europe House, the European Parliament Liason office in the UK in Westminster before her meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the impending negotioations and timeframe for the UKs withdrawal from the EU, on 8th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and the President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019.
    20200108_ursula von der leyen_005.jpg
  • President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, leaving Europe House, the European Parliament Liason office in the UK as Anti Brexit protesters shout encouragement and support to her in Westminster before her meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the impending negotioations and timeframe for the UKs withdrawal from the EU, on 8th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and the President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019.
    20200108_ursula von der leyen_004.jpg
  • Supermarket chain Aldi store on Old Kent Road on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Aldi is the common brand of two German family-owned discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. With its low price, discount approach, Aldi is rapidly becomming serious competition to the big four supermarkets in the UK.
    20200109_aldi_001.jpg
  • President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, leaving Europe House, the European Parliament Liason office in the UK as Anti Brexit protesters shout encouragement and support to her in Westminster before her meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the impending negotioations and timeframe for the UKs withdrawal from the EU, on 8th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and the President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019.
    20200108_ursula von der leyen_002.jpg
  • President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, leaving Europe House, the European Parliament Liason office in the UK as Anti Brexit protesters shout encouragement and support to her in Westminster before her meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the impending negotioations and timeframe for the UKs withdrawal from the EU, on 8th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and the President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019.
    20200108_ursula von der leyen_001.jpg
  • Ute Lemper, German performer, artiste and singer who specialises in cabaret music  of 1930's Weimar Germany. London, UK.
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  • Ute Lemper, German performer, artiste and singer who specialises in cabaret music  of 1930's Weimar Germany. London, UK.
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  • Old Soviet parade ground murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_3.jpg
  • Old Soviet parade ground illustrations show self-defence positions for Russian soldiers in the former Russian army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_2.jpg
  • The graffiti left on walls inside the Reichstag building by Soviet soldiers after their battles in the German capital at the end of the second world war. The building, having never been fully repaired since the fire, was damaged by air raids. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, it became one of the central targets for the Red Army to capture due to its perceived symbolic significance. Today, visitors to the building can still see Soviet graffiti on smoky walls inside as well as on part of the roof, which was preserved during the reconstructions after reunification.
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  • Two army officers from Ecuador admire an air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. The two men (the man on the right's name badge says M Pazmino), admire the sleek design of the missile called PARS 3 LR in German but known as TRIGAT-LR (Third Generation AntiTank, Long Range) and AC 3G in the French military, the missile is a high-precision 'fire-and-forget' weapon system for engaging mobile and stationary targets equipped with the latest generation of armour protection, such as tanks, field fortresses, bunkers and other high-value targets. The system can launch up to four salvos in eight seconds. <br />
The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • German novelist and Stern Magazine news featiure writer Markus Gotting (with an umlaut over the O but also spelled as Goetting) whilst on assignment during the London riots of August 2011.
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  • A graffiti-covered doorway in the German city of Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Stuck to the once-grand doors and windows, are posters and bill stickers advertising local culture, music and art. Kreuzberg has emerged from its history as one of the poorest quarters in Berlin in the late 1970s, during which it was an isolated section of West Berlin[2] to one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the now reunified city. It has one of the youngest populations of all European city boroughs, having long been the epicenter of 'Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer life and Arts' in Berlin.
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  • A sixties family holiday portrait at a German open-air pool, on 13th July, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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  • The outer wall and watchtower on Genzlerstrasse of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members.Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.
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  • The German national Die Zeit newspaper displays a picture of Adolf Hitler on their front page, a feature about Stern Magazine's controversial Hitler Diaries scandal, 30 years ago. The national scandal of the day was news around the world. Two senior staff at Stern magazine resigned after documents proved the 'lost diaries' of Hitler were forgeries. Peter Koch and Felix Schmidt, Stern's two chief editors, lost their jobs because they had failed to discover the forgery before the first installment of the purported Hitler diaries was printed on April 28 1983.
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  • Overlooking the River Thames and Tower Bridge in the distance is German financier and economist, Gebhard Klingenstein in the summer of 1996, London England.
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  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
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  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit – Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
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