hu

q henstaat, Germany's youngest and first socialist town,
FX, Scratch in 1961, From Hotel Lunik’s rooftop over-
Prema tee-lined Leninalle the East Foundry Metallurgical
Nera *yiIng about 5,000, mainly young workers — (town's
, !oung 'S 29 years — one-third of all inhabitants are chil-
Usa People under 15). In 1965 this Foundry exported pig
NY ted Arab Republic, Japan, Argentina, Brazil,
Setlin, enmark, Swedenj;-Austria, Italy;:»West Germany

Coming off shift, Eisenhutten-
stadt young workers take a beer
and a bite, while out in the street
on this hot July day and these
youthful Volkes Polizei cool off
and refresh with pop and bock-
wurst (hot dogs). Seeing my
sketch, one of these policemen
asked me to make him a “Kom-
mandant” by drawing more pips
on his epaulettes.

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Watched this last “thrilling” installment of a GDR TV “whodunnit,” while visiting Sid Gordon,

co-author of The Scalpel, The Sword, which was made into a radio play in East Berlin.

Shopping in the Eisenhuttenstadt self-service shop “Fix”. This
steel town has 235 general and special shops.

‘GDR state funds helped re-
store this Catholic Church, a
Dresden landmark, which was
destroyéd in great part during
the massive Anglo-U.S. bombing
in 1945. (Below) travelling back
to Berlin from Dresden, we saw
through the windshield, this fam-
iliar GDR highway sight—a hel-
meted motor cycle family (child
in’ front.) :

GDR control officer at Friedrichstrasse check-point examining
a passport of one entering East Berlin from the Western section. This
check-point and others are usually crowded with visitors, tourists and
citizens going from West to East and vice versa.

Camera snapping tourists, both young and old continually mill about Berlin's most familiar struc-
ture and its visual symbol, historic Brandenburg Gate. Busloads of tourists from Sociclist and West Euro-
pean countries keep unloading here. The only military to be seen was an armed soldier of the GDR
National People’s Aramy indicating that on the other side of this calm and peaceful scene are forces
whose dream of marching through the Brandenburg Gate to stamp out Socialism must remain a dream.

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