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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: CDU posters "We Germans" [55/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

January 1 - March 31 1990
Berlin and vicinity
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

Four identical CDU campaign posters featuring photos of the border opening and crowd at Brandenburg Gate

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), crowd, election poster, logo, motto, national anthem, photography, Trabant (car)

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Christian Democratic Union of Germany (GDR)

Places

Brandenburg Gate

Text in image

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit / Für das deutsche Vaterland! / Danach laßt uns alle streben / Brüderlich mir Herz und Hand! / Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit / Sind des Glückes Unterpfand / Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes / Blühe deutsches Vaterland!

Wir Deutschen / [f]reuen uns! / CDU

Wir Deutschen / freuen uns! / CDU

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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)