Indoctrination Starts Early

Indoctrination Starts Early

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Indoctrination Starts Early

East Germans – Behind the Wall


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 15/16 × 9 7/16 in. (17.7 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0049
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso C: ns) [cut off] 9/61 8) INDOCTRINATION STARTS EARLY in East Germany \ where teachers begin ideological training with the youngster \ in kindergarten. This group of uniformed babies is being \ wheeled through Dresden on a daily outing. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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