Compulsory Citizenship Meetings

Compulsory Citizenship Meetings

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Compulsory Citizenship Meetings

East Germans – Behind the Wall


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 3/8 × 6 5/16 in. (23.8 × 16 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0053
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: 9/61 12) COMPULSORY CITIZENSHIP MEETINGS such as this \ one in Rostock require housewives to attend evening dis- cussions of neighborhood problems, led by officials of the \ Communist Party. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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