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  • German fantasy landscape, painted on the side of a German bakery in New York City.
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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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  • 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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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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  • 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    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 Britain's 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 Britain's 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.
    foreign_office-25-17-09-2017.jpg
  • 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.
    poland-326-23-09-2019.jpg
  • 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_coleman-15-06-1990.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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  • 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.
    berlin_bundestag01-08-04-2013.jpg
  • 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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  • 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.
    john_major24-11-11-1992.jpg
  • 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.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990_2.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
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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.
    trabant_factory-15-06-1990.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.
    trabant_factory-15-06-1990_1.jpg
  • 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 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    EU_germany-16-05-2000.jpg
  • 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
  • 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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  • High up on an exposed balcony, german city workers smoke outside of their office tower block in Franfurt's financial district.
    frankfurt1-16-05-2000.jpg
  • 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.
    DDR_travel03-06_1990.jpg
  • 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...
    DDR_travel01-06_1990.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh157-04-06-2014.jpg
  • 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time'.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison13-05-0...jpg
  • 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    deutschmarks_tin02-15-06-1990.jpg
  • 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_trabant01-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Tabard on a hangar at German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. <br />
<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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  • German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) vehicle logos at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh291-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh261-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh259-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh248-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Mosquito nets in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh244-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh235-04-06-2014.jpg
  • First Aid kits in amergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh242-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Sanitation wash sinks in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh227-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Blankets in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh217-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Sanitation wash sinks in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh223-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Blankets in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh213-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Latrines in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh207-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Frame tents in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh199-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Tents in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh190-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Tents in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh189-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Maternity tent mock-up in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh176-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Maternity tent mock-up in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
    christian_schuh165-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh163-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh152-04-06-2014.jpg
  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh133-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Samaritan and victim bronze statues outside the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh129-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Samaritan and victim bronze statues outside the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh128-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Samaritan and victim bronze statues outside the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh126-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Samaritan and victim bronze statues outside the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh125-04-06-2014.jpg
  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh107-04-06-2014.jpg
  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh106-04-06-2014.jpg
  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh104-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.
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  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.
    christian_schuh58-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.
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  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
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  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.
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  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.
    christian_schuh05-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.  <br />
<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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  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany.<br />
<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).
    christian_schuh31-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Peeled paint and security at the entrance 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison04-05-0...jpg
  • Peeled paint and security at the entrance 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison05-05-0...jpg
  • Detail of an air pressure pump mounted to a wall in 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison06-05-0...jpg
  • CCTV cameras and barred windows and architecture 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison08-05-0...jpg
  • Security barbed wire at the entrance 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison09-05-0...jpg
  • Entrance architecture 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison10-05-0...jpg
  • CCTV cameras barbed wire over the outer wall 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison12-05-0...jpg
  • Statue of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) the German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. 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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  • 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    deutschmarks_tin01-15-06-1990.jpg
  • 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.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990_1.jpg
  • 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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  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
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  • Sanitation wash sinks in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport.
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  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
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  • Plain stairwell in the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
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  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
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  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.
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  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
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  • Paediatric nurse and aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany.<br />
<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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  • Peeled paint and security at the entrance 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. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
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  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-11-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Met Police officers walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-09-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-10-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Met Police officers walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-07-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-06-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-05-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-04-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-03-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-02-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-01-29-11-2021.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.
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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.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_bernauer02-07-04-2013.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.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-16-29-11-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, visitors to the capital stand next to an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-15-29-11-2021.jpg
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