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Images - In the Name of Peace
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1.   Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 2nd Armored Division in Fort Hood, Texas (1963)
To demonstrate its ability to rapidly reinforce NATO troops in Europe in the event of a Cold War emergency, the United States launched "Operation Big Lift" on October 22, 1963. During the course....
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 2nd Armored Division in Fort Hood, Texas (1963)
2.   "Peace is the Emergency" (1969)
The critical Protestant Gustav Heinemann (CDU) was Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950. He resigned his office to protest West Germany’s imminent rearmament.....
3.   Henry Kissinger and Helmut Schmidt (March 8, 1975)
A practitioner of Realpolitik, the German-born American politician Henry Kissinger had a decisive hand in shaping U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s. He....
Henry Kissinger and Helmut Schmidt (March 8, 1975)
4.   Signing the Final Act (Helsinki Accords) of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) (August 1, 1975)
Representatives from all the European states (with the exception of Albania), Canada, and the U.S. participated in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). First, a conference....
Signing the Final Act (Helsinki Accords) of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) (August 1, 1975)
5.   Peace Demonstration in Bonn (October 10, 1981)
At the beginning of the 1980s, NATO’s Dual-Track Decision sparked fears of nuclear war in....
Peace Demonstration in Bonn (October 10, 1981)
6.   Heinrich Böll at a Peace Demonstration in Bonn (October 10, 1981)
This photographer shows the writer and Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll addressing a crowd at the largest peace rally in the Federal Republic up to that point.....
Heinrich Böll at a Peace Demonstration in Bonn (October 10, 1981)
7.   Coretta Scott King and Harry Belafonte at a Peace Demonstration in Bonn (October 10, 1981)
On October 10, 1981, the city of Bonn hosted the largest peace demonstration in the Federal Republic....
Coretta Scott King and Harry Belafonte at a Peace Demonstration in Bonn (October 10, 1981)
8.   Helmut Kohl Visits the Federal Armed Forces in Koblenz (1982)
Koblenz’s long tradition as a garrison town dates back to 1815, when a Prussian general command unit was established there under August Neidhardt von Gneisenau. As part of the rearmament process....
Helmut Kohl Visits the Federal Armed Forces in Koblenz (1982)
9.   Solidarity Meeting (1982)
On July 22, 1982, 600 student members of the Free German Youth protested the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon at a solidarity meeting in the East Berlin’s Plänterwald Forest. They voiced their....
Solidarity Meeting (1982)
10.   SPD Poster for Bundestag Elections: Hans-Jochen Vogel (1983)
The Dortmund Election Party Congress of the SPD was held on January 21, 1983. There, Lord Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel was nominated as the party’s top candidate....
SPD Poster for Bundestag Elections: Hans-Jochen Vogel (1983)
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