[Leica] Pictures from the old East Germany

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Looks more like a series of holiday pictures all over east and central 
europe, not only eastern germany specific. The album is titled "interrail" 
which was (or still is) the name of a very popular railway abonnement for 
young people, which allows to travel one month with all european railways 
for a moderate price. 

I have travelled in the DDR around 1980 and never seen neither Levi's, Sony, 
BASF ads nor Burgerking restaurants. And DDR officials would never, never 
have "welcomed the passengers from the visiting luxury liner" (but maybe 
kicked their a??...)! The car on picture 035 is a genuine DDR-Trabi but 
captured near Gy?r/Hungary.

I could identify many other countries like BRD (The "Terroristen! Vorsicht 
Schusswaffen!" poster offering 50'000 DM rewards), Turkey ("Polis" 
officers), Italy ("E' morto il compagno Enrico Berlinguer" - former chief of 
communist party), Austria ("Innsbruck Hbf"), Croatia ("vlakom je 
najsigurnije") and others. 

Nice to have a look at anyway. 

Didier


>Hey Everyone
>One of the guys on the Praktica group posted some very interesting pics of 
>East Germany from around 1984. They were all taken with a bx20. These are 
>not the usual political pics that you would normally see.
>http://www.kolumbus.fi/jukka.karvonen/interrail/index.htm
>Javier