SZ Photo - Poverty and social hardship after the end of the First World War

01.01.1923 - German cinema-goers are charged the admission price of two charcoal briquettes to see the matinee film 'Judas' as a result of inflation. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1924 - People in front of the State pawn shop. After the introduction of the Reichsmark in 1924, the inflation had an end but since all savings were destroyed, many peoples were forced to...
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01.01.1923 - Women and children with "panic buying" walk along an alley. During the inflation, the food supply was so poor that many people drove out of town in order to "hamster" on the countr...
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01.01.1923 - The German emergency assistance tries to alleviate poverty and suffering of the population during the inflation through fundraising. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1920 - This Aschinger-local is closed due to lack of food. The restaurants of the brothers Aschinger were notorious people's restaurants. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1923 - Police lead away a man, probably a foreign exchange dealer. His blue eyes bears witness that it probably came to scuffles earlier. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1920 - The relief organization of the foreign distributes a food donation from the American Quakers to school children. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1921 - In the Cecilie house rice is being distributed to the people of Berlin, a donation from the German-Brazilian German club. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1920 - School children in the playground of a school in Berlin. A food donation from the American Quakers will be distributed to school children. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1920 - A food donation from the American Quaker is distributed to the school children in a Berlin school playground. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1924 - School children in a dining room of a charity association. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1920 - One patient in the waiting room of a doctor. The sign hanging behind him asks the patients to bring briquettes so that the waiting room can be heated. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1920 - Unemployed demonstrate in front of the palace of the Reich president with posters on which they require work instead charity. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.02.1919 - Returned home soldiers from the First World War play street music with guitar, mandolin. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - The Nuremberg municipality prohibits the immigration to Nuremberg, as there was housing shortage in Germany after First World War. The warning sign is in the Nuremberg train statio...
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01.01.1920 - Boys with billboards on which exchange rates for silver and gold pieces are offered, which alone retained their value in the inflation after the First First World WarI . [XPAEXPORT...
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01.01.1919 - Queue of hungry people before the cheap meat counter in Berlin in the autumn of 1919. The women had to queue for hours before they turn came and often happened that the stock was a...
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01.07.1920 - The housing shortage in cities and industrial districts after the WWI led to the provision of temporary accommodations for families in old railway carriages, by the Berlin municipa...
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01.01.1919 - After WWI he ekes out a living by selling umbrellas in the streets of Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - Rachitic children, recognizable by their square-shaped heads and their asymmetric posture. Rickets is caused by a disturbance of the calcium and phosphate metabolism due to vitamin...
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01.01.1920 - Needy students receive a hot meal from the student assistance in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1923 - A woman donates money at the fund raising stand of the organization 'Gebets- und Arbeitsbund Paul Gerhardt' in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.09.1923 - Berliner receive soup at a field kitchen. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.11.1923 - A mounted police officer patrolling at the edge of a potato field while hoarders from the cities wait at the edge. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1923 - A stand of the German Charity, collects in the time of the inflation alms for clothing for the needy people. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1923 - Before the railway station Gesundbrunnen children are waiting with handcarts for people who bought food in the country and want to rent the carts. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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08.12.1923 - Policemen evacuate a street after a demonstration in the Scheunenviertel. Protests against the high prices and the increasing devaluation of money led to riots in Berlin. [XPAEXPOR...
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08.12.1923 - During a violent demonstration a pants store was plundered in the Grenadier Strasse in Berlin. Protests against the inflation and currency devaluation led to disturbances in Berlin...
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01.12.1923 - Policemen clear the Mulachstrasse in Berlin after a violent demonstration. Inflation disturbances led to plundering in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1923 - east Berlin's poor while eating in a soup kitchen of the Salvation Army. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.11.1923 - Feeding of needy people in a soup kitchen of the public relief office in Berlin during the inflation. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.08.1923 - During the hardship of the inflation the children were sent out of the cities to camps in the country. In a service building ration carriers get food for a group of children. [XPAE...
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01.01.1924 - Homeless people waiting outside a dormitory for the homeless. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.10.1920 - Smugglers on the German-Dutch border. Since the Netherlands remained neutral in the First World War, there could be purchased goods, that could not be obtained in Germany. [XPAEXPO...
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01.01.1920 - Smugglers at the German-Dutch border near Kaldenkirchen. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - Policemen go through the pockets of persons who were arrested for looting during the Spartacist uprising in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - Women with heavy backpacks and bags return from a foraging trip. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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06.12.1918 - Hoarder activity on a Westphalian small town station. Hoarders carry heavy sacks of potatoes, for which they have exchanged their last valuables. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1922 - In the time of scarcity after the First World War, even ladies from the upper classes were not too classy to pick up fallen potatoes from the street. A police officer watches them....
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01.01.1919 - Hoarders with heavy backpacks stand in a long queue at the station. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1920 - A family has moved as an emergency shelter into a freight car during the economic crisis. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - Labor market in Gormannstrasse in Berlin, where job seekers are placed in employment. The people gathered in front of a building in which are issued the certificates of employment...
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01.01.1919 - A player presents a game of chance on a street in Berlin in the postwar period, in order to make profit with the promise of quick earnings. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - A street artist swallowing his pocket watch. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1918 - Black market trading in a Berlin street. The crowd is so big that carriages and cars barely get through (rear right). [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - On the right, two women stand by a street stand and look at the displayed goods. Left, a small woman sells sweets to former soldiers. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - On a street in Berlin the stand of a sausage seller is guarded by the military. In front of the stand are passers-by looking at the stand. Behind the stand on a board are posters w...
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01.01.1919 - People queue to buy food before a shop. On the street is a branch of Loeser & Wolff Cigarren next to a business of the Swiss chocolate with a sign of Cailler. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - On a Berlin street, the stand of a liqueur dealer is guarded by the military. On the left the former soldier and liqueur dealer, on the right one of his military guards taste the l...
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01.01.1919 - Labor market in Gormannstrasse in Berlin, where job seekers are placed in employment. The people gathered in front of a building in which are issued the certificates of employment...
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01.01.1919 - Two black market traders are led to the police station by three members of a Freikorps (?) unit. They are probably on Alexanderplatz. The armed men wear old uniforms of the Imperia...
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01.01.1919 - A speaker surrounded by a crowd. In front is a coach that is just leaving the rally. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - Performance of the play "Peace-Wishing Germany" by Johann Rist (1649). From left to right: Monsieur Sausewind: W. Walter, Pest: Ms. Arnold, Mars: Haas, Hunger: Miss Maack, spokesma...
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01.01.1919 - Two members of the Berlin Marksmen Regiment at the entrance to the racetrack in Berlin-Karlshorst. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1920 - A group of men surrounds a man who is looking probably at a gem or a piece of jewelry through a magnifying glass. The object is to be sold here on the black market. [XPAEXPORTID000...
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01.01.1919 - On the left is a table with a thimblerigger. In the middle a card player with a buckled plate as a table. Right of the gamblers (mainly former soldiers) a group of men are buying a...
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01.01.1919 - Street trade in the Schoenhauserstrasse in Berlin. Former soldiers offer for sale clothing and boots to passers-by. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1920 - In the dining room of the Quakers in Berlin, needy students are being fed. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - A woman gives cod liver oil to the children of a Berlin school. Four children are standing in a row in front of her. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - Three women and a young girl stand in front of an office with the inscription "War prisoners homecoming information here". All three of them hold a gift in their hands, which they...
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01.01.1919 - Children in need are sent from Berlin to the countryside, where they receive better care. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1920 - On the left, two women are probably issuing coupons for the food distribution. A boy with a little girl has just received his coupon. Right behind at an improvised counter are thre...
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01.01.1919 - In a schoolyard (presumably a girls' school) in Berlin, hundreds of schoolgirls have gathered with eating utensils in their hands to receive food donated by Quaker. Further behind...
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