Uploads from LimitedExpress, tagged ddr

Berlin DDR - city map - late 70s

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:43:01 -0700

The cover of the map, typical DDR graphics, with leftover of pre-war Bauhaus functionalism (?), it shows silhouettes of seven East Berlin landmarks, including the Brandenburg Gate, which was located on the border but technically 100% on East Berlin territory. Price: 2.50 East German Marks
see an excerpt of the map here :
www.flickr.com/photos/41306854@N00/4564245644/in/pool-708...

East Berlin - February 1982 - Karl-Marx-Allee - Konsum grocery store

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:50:31 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Konsum grocery store, corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Strasse der Pariser Kommune.
This store specialized in "Fruits and vegetables from the People's Republic of Poland".
Scanned from an Ektachrome slide

East Berlin - February 1982 - Karl-Marx-Allee

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:50:05 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Karl-Marx -Allee, formerly Stalin-Allee

West Berlin - February 1982 - Imbiss

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:58 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Location unknown, presumably near Potsdamer Platz.
Any anyone help ?

Berlin - February 1982 - Union-Verlag (VOB)

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:45:36 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

On East Berlin territory, adjacent to Checpoint Charlie, pic made from West Berlin.
Union-Verlag was the publisher of Neue Zeit, the daily newspaper of the Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU), one of the puppet parties maintained by the SED-regime to give the pretence of a multi-party system.

It was known as CDU-Ost in West Germany, and was amalgamated into the (West) CDU after reunification.

VOB was the acronym for "Vereinigung organisationseigener Betrieb" = enterprise owned by an organisation (here the CDU as a party)

East Berlin - February 1982 - Poland's information center

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:49:47 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Information board at the Polish information center.
"The Polish People's Army is fighting the flood".

West Berlin - February 1982 - flea market near Potsdamer Platz

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:15 -0700

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East Berlin - February 1982 - U-Bahn

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:49:53 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

U-Bahn viaduct in Pankow.
near Schönhauser Allee?
Exact location ?

Berlin - February 1982 - Chekpoint Charlie

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:47:26 -0700

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Berlin - February 1982 - Leipziger Platz

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:23 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Leipziger Platz and Leipziger Strasse seen from the West accross the Wall.
A very wide no-mans-land.

East Berlin - February 1982 - Leninplatz

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:48:30 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

The square is now called "Platz der Vereinten Nationen" (United Nations Square)

Berlin - February 1982 - Bernauer Strasse

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:02 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Bernauer Strasse, seen from the West Berlin.
The church ended up in the no-mans land and was condemned intil the Wall came down.

Berlin - Brandenburger Tor - February 1982

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:49:12 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) seen from the West, the white wall follows the border, the gate itself was 100% on East Berlin territory.
The sign says "Beware! you are now leaving West-Berlin"

East Berlin - February 1982 - Leipziger Platz

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:45:50 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Leipziger Platz seen from observation platform on Potdamer Platz (West side).
The octogon shape of Leipziger Platz is still visible on the right.

Berlin DDR - city map - late 70s

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:42:59 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

This is an excerpt from an East German (DDR) map of East Berlin from the late 70s / early 80s, from the state cartographic publishing house "VEB Landkartenverlag·Berlin"

Because of the Berlin Wall (here shown in purple) and the impossibility for the E Germans to travel freely, including to the Western sectors of Berlin (West Berlin), it was deemed preferable by the East German authorities not to show at all any detail of West Berlin !.. What is shown as a desert are of course densenly built-up areas, with an equivalent density of streets, totally obliterated here, save for one or two major streets linking with the border crossings (like Check Point Charlie, on the lower edge of the border, shown under its official DDR designation as "Grenzübergang Friedrichstrasse").

Even the spelling "Westberlin" in one word is DDR-fantasy, dictated by political motives: the DDR regime perpetuated the fiction that there was some kind of a third German state called "Westberlin". In the West, the political entity made up of the three Western sectors was spelled "West Berlin" or "West-Berlin", sometimes "Berlin (West)"; in the East, "East Berlin" or "Ost-Berlin" in German was frowned by the regime, the official designation was "Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR", ie "Berlin-Capital City of the GDR".
See the cover of the map here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41306854@N00/4564245722/in/pool-708...

East Berlin - February 1982 - Palast der Republik

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:50:24 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

State arms of the DDR on the facade of the Palast der Republik, a complex housing an auditorium, restaurants, a bowling alley and the Volkskammer (parliament).

The symbols are the hammer and the compass, circled by the gerb .

This building was torn down recently, partly because it was loaded with asbestos, partly for political / historical motives as it stood on the site of the Berlin castle.

Berlin - February 1982

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:40 -0700

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Berlin - February 1982 - border crossing Oberbaumbrücke

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:47:43 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Oberbaumbrücke pedestrian border crossing, seen from West Berlin, corner of Gröbenufer and Oberbaumstrasse.
The bridge over the canal belonged to East Berlin and the border is a couple of meters behind the trilingual sign (quadrilingual actually, it's also written in German in smaller letters at the bottom).
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West Berlin - February 1982 - Kreuzberg

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:29 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Bilingual sign (German + Turkish)
"Beware - life-threatening danger - the waterway belongs to the east sector of Berlin", in other words "if you fall into the water, West Berlin police cannot intervene here".

Berlin - February 1982 - Charité

nobody@flickr.com (LimitedExpress) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:46:34 -0700

LimitedExpress posted a photo:

Seen from West Berlin
Charité hospital in East Berlin
S-Bahn train on Stadtbahn