Memorial sites and museums
In order not to forget the division of the country and the history of the GDR, numerous memorials and museums were established in the united Germany.
03.04.2023 - DDR Museum, Vera Britain Ufer, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Mitte, Berlin, Deutschland
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31.03.2023 - Das Logo des DDR-Museums ist an dem Eingang angebracht, aufgenommen bei der Pressekonferenz zur Wiedereröffnung des DDR-Museums. Drei Monate nach dem Platzen des Aquariums in einem...
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27.07.2012 - Mit einem Weihnachtsstollen steht Museumsleiterin Anja Urban am Freitag (27.07.2012) in ihrem gut gefüllten DDR-Dorfkonsum im DDR Museum in Burg. Mehr als 10.000 Sammlerstücke behe...
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03.07.2008 - The wax figure of Erich Honecker, secretary-general of the Central Committee of the SED and Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR, is exhibited in the rooms of the wayworks M...
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09.11.2003 - A young woman looks through a gap in the rest of the Berlin Wall displayed at Bernauer Strasse Memorial Site, Berlin, November 9th 2003.
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16.12.2018 - 16.12.2018, Sachsen-Anhalt, Magdeburg: Ein Schild weist auf die DDR-Museumswohnung in Magdeburg hin. Unter dem Motto «Weihnachten in der DDR» wurde die Museumswohnung mit weihnacht...
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05.11.2014 - Das Straßenschild Bernauer Straße/Ackerstraße steht am 05.11.2014 vor der Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer. Foto: Sören Stache/dpa
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10.08.2001 - A man walks his dogs past a part of the former German-German border in Hoetensleben, Germany, 10 August 2001. The part of the former border is kept alive as a memorial.
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30.11.2012 - Besucher betrachten am 30.11.2012 einen Trabant im DDR Museum in Berlin. Das DDR-Museum präsentiert in seiner interaktiven Dauerausstellung das Leben und die Alltagskultur in der D...
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22.08.2017 - Visitors at the "Haus auf der Grenze" (lit. house on the border) in which a permanent exhibition by the Point Alpha Foundation deals with the era of the divided Germany and the bor...
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22.08.2017 - A sign in Russian reads "Stoi" (stop) in Geisa, Germany, at the state border between Thuringia andHesse at the "Haus auf der Grenze" (lit. house on the border) in which a permanent...
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18.12.2012 - Der Eingang zur Ausstellung des DDR-Museums Pirna, fotografiert am 18.12.2012 in Pirna (Sachsen). Foto: Jens Kalaene/dpa
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03.09.2012 - Der Skulpturenpark " Deutsche Einheit " an der ehemaligen Grenzuebergangsstelle Eu§enhausen ( BRD )/ Henneberg ( DDR ) erinnert am 03.09.2012 an die Oeffnung der innerdeutschen Gr...
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13.08.2007 - A person lays a flower on an 'obituary' in Berlin, Germany, 13 August 2007. Germany's Christian Democrats party (CDU) commemorated the victims of the Berlin Wall. Photo: Tim Brake...
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12.03.2007 - A cyclist passes the former Stasi pridon Hohenschoenhausen in Berlin, Germany, 12 March 2007.
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17.10.2013 - Schilder hängen am 17.10.2013 an der ehemaligen Bezirksverwaltung des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit in Leipzig (Sachsen). In der so genannten "Runden Ecke" ist heute ein Museum...
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01.09.2005 - Information signs of the Federal Border Guard warning of entering the former GDR border installations hang in the museum 'Grenzhus' on the former inner-German border in Schlagdorf...
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29.09.2005 - Visitors to the Berlin Wall memorial of Marie Elisabeth Lueders House eye a body count in Berlin, Germany, 29 September 2005. Photo: Peer Grimm
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29.09.2005 - Visitors to the Berlin Wall memorial of Marie Elisabeth Lueders House eye a body count in Berlin, Germany, 29 September 2005. Photo: Felix Heyder
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21.04.2011 - Tourists visit the newly designed photo wall with pictures of the known victims of the Wall in the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, taken on 04/21/2011. At this...
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13.08.2007 - A person lays a flower on an 'obituary' in Berlin, Germany, 13 August 2007. Germany's Christian Democrats party (CDU) commemorated the victims of the Berlin Wall. Photo: Tim Brake...
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26.07.2005 - Four-year-old Vivien walks along former barricades at the Museum on the History of German Separation
in Moedlareuth on 26 July 2005. The village Modlareuth was divided by the Wall...
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13.08.2007 - Tourists peek through holes in the Berlin Wall memorial on a reconstruction of the death strip in Berlin, Germany, 13 August 2007. The same day, a commemoration for the victims of...
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13.08.2007 - Tourists walk past crosse commemorating the victims of the GDR border in Berlin, Germany, 13 August 2007. Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert
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28.05.2008 - The new gallery wall for the memorial site Berlin Wall is presented in Berlin, Germany, 28 May 2008. The wall informs on the expansion of the memorial site. Photo: Stephanie Pilick
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22.08.2017 - A sign on a former border fence reads "Mahnmal deutscher Geschichte" (lit. memorial of German history) in Geisa, Germany, at the state border between Thuringia and Hesse, 22.08.201...
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22.08.2017 - Sculptures by artist Ulrich Barnickel mark a section of the former death strip at the state border between Thuringia and Hesse, 22.08.2017. A sign marks the division of Germany and...
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30.11.2012 - Touristen laufen am 30.11.2012 am DDR Museum in Berlin vor. Das DDR-Museum präsentiert in seiner interaktiven Dauerausstellung das Leben und die Alltagskultur in der DDR. Seit sein...
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28.03.2008 - Different TV sets are exhibited in the re-opened GDR museum in Perleberg, Germany, 28 March 2008. The museum had to be closer during the winter because it could not be heated. The...
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13.08.2007 - Tourists walk past crosses commemorating the victims of the GDR border in Berlin, Germany, 13 August 2007. Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert
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01.09.2003 - A visitor and her daughter walk along the orginally copied border strip in Schlagsdorf, Germany, 01 September 2003. The open-air area is part of the museum 'Grenzhus', which is loc...
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22.08.2017 - Flags fly outside the "Haus auf der Grenze" (lit. house on the border) in which a permanent exhibition by the Point Alpha Foundation deals with the era of the divided Germany and t...
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22.08.2017 - Former watchtowers of the GDR and the US Army stand opposite each other at the state border between Thuringia and Hesse in Geisa, Germany, 22.08.2017. The Point Alpha Memorial deal...
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05.11.2018 - 05.11.2018, Sachsen, Leipzig: Monika Grütters (CDU) , Kulturstaatsministerin, und Hans Walter Hütter, Präsident der Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der BRD, betrachten in der neuen Da...
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02.09.2011 - View of the entrance to the Berlin Wall Museum "Haus am Checkpoint Charlie" in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Heinz Krimmer
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13.08.1999 - Ruth Fechter (L) and Gisela Geue (R), sisters of the first-ever GDR refugee gunned down by GDR border forces in 1962, pictured at the Peter Fechter Memorial in Berlin, Germany, 13...
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28.03.2008 - A typical GDR living room of the 1970's is part of the exhibition at the re-opened GDR museum in Perleberg, Germany, 28 March 2008. The museum had to be closer during the winter be...
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22.08.2017 - A sign in Russian reads "Stoi" (stop) in Geisa, Germany, at the state border between Thuringia andHesse at the "Haus auf der Grenze" (lit. house on the border) in which a permanent...
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21.08.2018 - 21.08.2018 Sachsen-Anhalt, Zeitz: Zekwia-Kinderwagen aus den 1950er Jahren stehen in einer Vitrine. Das Deutsche Kinderwagenmuseum zeigt jetzt unter dem Titel «Die Zekiwa-Jahre» ei...
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01.02.2006 - A former GDR border mark pictured at German-German musuem of Moedlareuth, Germany, 01 February 2006. The town of Moedlareuth was nicknamed 'Little Berlin' as a 700-metres long wall...
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31.12.2004 - Dark wooden crosses, one for each victim of the inner German border, stand at the Checkpoint Charlie memorial in Berlin on 31 December 2004. The controversial memorial will presuma...
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07.02.2005 - A total of 1,065 wooden crosses, one for each victim of the Berlin Wall, are installed at former border crossing Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, 07 February 2005. Photo: Jan...
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30.06.2003 - The picture shows a plaque with the dates of the existence of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall memorial. The Berlin Wall seperated the city from 1961 to 1989.
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28.03.2008 - Flags fly in front of the re-opened GDR museum in Perleberg on 28 March 2008. The museum had to be closer during the winter because it could not be heated. The retired priest Peter...
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13.08.2000 - Numerous people have gathered at the newly unveiled guards' house at former 'Checkpoint Charlie' on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, August 13th 2000. 39 years after the wall was built,...
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21.04.2011 - View of the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, the newly designed photo wall with pictures of the known victims of the Wall on the right, taken on 04/21/2011. At t...
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04.06.2014 - Ein AWO-Motorrad steht vor dem Fahrzeugmuseum in Suhl (Thüringen), aufgenommen am 04.06.2014. Der DDR-Zweiradklassiker "Schwalbe" wird Anfang Juli gefeiert. Zum 50-jährigen Jubilä...
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04.11.2004 - A doll of a GDR soldier pictured at former watchtower 'Kieler Eck' in Berlin, Germany, 04 November 2004.
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05.11.2004 - Conservator Stefan Nagelmann cleans a GDR emblem from the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic). Within the scope of the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sta...
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30.11.2012 - A street sign showing the way to the DDR Museum (GDR Museum) is pictured in front of the TV Tower in Berlin, Germany, 30 November 2012. The DDR museum displays an interactive perma...
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22.08.2017 - Sculptures by artist Ulrich Barnickel mark a section of the former death strip at the state border between Thuringia and Hesse, 22.08.2017. The installation is part of the Point Al...
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04.07.2005 - A protest sign stands in front of the wall crosses at checkpoint Charlie in Berlin on 04 July 2005. The more than 1000 wooden crosses which commemorate the victims of the inner-Ger...
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07.11.2003 - Seven original Berlin Wall segments, among them the 'Koenigskopf' ('King's Head') segment by Kiddy Citny from 1985 are on display outside Maerkisches Museum in Berlin, Germany, Nov...
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13.08.2003 - Almost 80 people lie on the former border strip at 'Potsdamer Platz' square, one of them holding up a barbed wooden cross reading 'In commemoration of the victims of the Wall' in B...
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04.11.2004 - A GDR flag and plans of the former death strip pictured at former watchtower 'Kieler Eck' in Berlin, Germany, 04 November 2004.
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31.10.2004 - A total of 1,065 crosses, one for each victim of the Berlin Wall, pictured nextto Berlin Wall museum at former Chrckpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, 31 October 2004.
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15.07.2006 - A tourist arrives at a private museum on the GDR in Berlin, Germany, 15 July 2006. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm
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01.02.2006 - A former GDR border mark pictured at German-German musuem of Moedlareuth, Germany, 01 February 2006. The town of Moedlareuth was nicknamed 'Little Berlin' as a 700-metres long wall...
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28.02.2008 - Two men pass an information board at the Berlin Wall memorial in Berlin, Germany, 28 February 2008. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm
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28.05.2008 - The new gallery wall for the memorial site Berlin Wall is presented in Berlin, Germany, 28 May 2008. The wall informs on the expansion of the memorial site. Photo: Stephanie Pilick
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28.02.2008 - A woman eyes an information board at the Berlin Wall memorial in Berlin, Germany, 28 February 2008. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm
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08.11.2007 - Tourists read an information panel at the Berlin Wall memorial in Berlin, Germany, 08 November 2008.
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22.08.2009 - Das Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld, aufgenommen am Samstag (22.08.2009) in Teistungen im Eichsfeldkreis. Mit einem Festakt würdigt Thüringen heute die Grenzöffnung zwischen Ungarn und Ö...
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21.08.2018 - 21.08.2018 Sachsen-Anhalt, Zeitz: Eine Museumsmitarbeiterin schaut in eine neue Vitrine mit Zekwia-Kinderwagen aus den 1970er Jahren. Das Deutsche Kinderwagenmuseum zeigt jetzt unt...
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21.09.2010 - Blick auf das DDR-Museum in Malchow (Müritz-Kreis), aufgenommen am 21.09.2010. Das Museum in einem ehemaligen Kino entstand vor elf Jahren. 20 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung reiß...
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09.11.2007 - Roses are arranged at remains of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany, 09 November 2007. Victims were commemorated on the occasion of the Fall of the Wall's 18th anniversary. Photo:...
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01.02.2006 - A former GDR border troops uniform pictured at German-German musuem of Moedlareuth, Germany, 01 February 2006. The town of Moedlareuth was nicknamed 'Little Berlin' as a 700-metres...
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21.08.2018 - 21.08.2018 Sachsen-Anhalt, Zeitz: Ein roter Ledersessel steht im Hof des Schlossmuseums. Das Deutsche Kinderwagenmuseum zeigt jetzt unter dem Titel «Die Zekiwa-Jahre» eine Ausstell...
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01.10.2018 - 01.10.2018, Sachsen-Anhalt, Marienborn: Ein begehbarer Lichtmast steht an der Grenzübergangsstelle Marienborn neben einem Gebäude, das zur Zollabfertigung von ausreisenden (l) und...
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21.08.2018 - 21.08.2018 Sachsen-Anhalt, Zeitz: Zekwia-Kinderwagen aus den 1960er Jahren stehen in einer Vitrine. Das Deutsche Kinderwagenmuseum zeigt jetzt unter dem Titel «Die Zekiwa-Jahre» ei...
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09.11.2007 - Roses are arranged at remains of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany, 09 November 2007. Victims were commemorated on the occasion of the Fall of the Wall's 18th anniversary. Photo:...
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24.05.2010 - Neu gestaltete Bilderwand mit Fotos der bekannten Maueropfer an der Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer in der Bernauer Straße in Berlin, Deutschland, Europa
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17.09.2014 - Denkmal der deutschen Teilung und Wiedervereinigung, im Jahr 2000 von Schülern des Holzbildhauerhandwerks des staatlichen Berufsbildungszentrums Bad Salzungen gestaltet, ehemalige...
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14.08.2013 - Denkmal zum Tag der Maueröffnung am 11.11.1989 zwischen Stapelburg und Eckertal, ehemalige innerdeutsche Grenze, Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland, Europa
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22.09.2014 - Deutschland, Berlin, 22. September 2014. Im Berliner Stadtbezirk Friedrichshain befindet sich das Denkmal der East Side Gallery mit dem längsten noch erhaltenem Teilstück der Berli...
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25.03.2012 - Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, Bernauer Straße, Mitte, Berlin, Deutschland, Europa
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