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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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