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Daily LIFT #1502
Fidel Castro, presents Erich Honecker with a map of the Republic of Cuba during a visit to the German Democratic Republic. He was showing...
Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1435
Ho Chi Minh in Dresden, German Democratic Republic, July 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1435 He was with Vietnamese children who had found a new...
Michael Laxer
Sep 2, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1433
Erich Honecker with Angela Davis -- Daily LIFT #1433 General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1427
Unveiling of the monument to Friedrich Engels in the inner courtyard of the Friedrich Engels Military Academy of the German Democratic...
Michael Laxer
Aug 22, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1364
Profile photo of the great Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1364
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1332
Stamp in honour of the 7th Congress of the Socialist Unity Party, German Democratic Republic, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1332 From the Great...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20241 min read


Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945
From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...
Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1221
International Women's Year, 3-panel design for a stamp and posters celebrating the event, German Democratic Republic 1975 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20241 min read


Ban the Atomic Bomb!
Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1178
International Marxist study group, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1178
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1176
Rosa Luxemburg Memorial Stamp, German Democratic Republic 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1176
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20241 min read


Erich Honecker on the formation of the GDR, October 7, 1949
October 7 marks the anniversary of the formation of German Democratic Republic in 1949. Having come into being as a result of the Second...
Michael Laxer
Oct 7, 202314 min read


Daily LIFT #1032
Disarmament!, poster G. Voigt, German Democratic Republic 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1032 This poster from the GDR won first prize at the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 13, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1017
The Chinese Delegation at the Third World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace, Berlin, German Democratic Republic 1951 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #978
To the Victims of Fascism, painting Hans Grundig, German Democratic Republic 1948 -- Daily LIFT #978 The painting was done by Grundig as...
Michael Laxer
Jul 9, 20231 min read


Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37
Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37 A GDR stamp for the Day of the Stamp. The image is of a "modern" postal worker on a...
Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20231 min read


Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36
Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36 Stamp in honour of a massive youth festival and meeting held over 3 days in Berlin,...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read


Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20231 min read


Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34
Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34 Stamp in memory of the tenth anniversary of the murder of the great leader...
Michael Laxer
Jun 13, 20231 min read
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