Political situation in Germany (1925-1932)

An issue of the newspaper "Rote Fahne".

A demonstration of the "Red Front" members in Berlin, with orchestras leading the columns.

A "Red Front" column moving along a Berlin street, with mounted police riding behind the column.

Drummers marching in formation.

Demonstrators carry banners with slogans.

A column of young people passes by.

Faces of German Komsomol members ("Spartacists").

A column of children walks along the street.

Members of youth communist organizations stand with posters in their hands.

A demonstration of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers" members in one of Berlin's parks.

A panorama of an open area during an event of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers" and the Communist Youth of Germany.

Faces of members of youth communist organizations.

Sale and distribution of badges with communist symbols.

A bugler in a naval uniform gives the signal for the beginning of the rally.

A view of part of the rally.

One of the speakers speaking.

Faces of rally participants (panorama).

Panorama of the rally.

Poster of the "Red Front".

Posters announcing the start of the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Germany on June 9-14, 1929, above the entrance to the building.

Banners with slogans above one of the streets in Wedding.

Panorama of part of the session of the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (top).

Member of the Central Committee of the GKP Heckert F. speaks from the rostrum.

A representative of the delegates of the workers of the Hamburg shipyard greets the congress from the rostrum.

Children of striking textile workers of Schleswig greet the congress.

Chairman of the KPD Thalmann E. speaks from the rostrum with a report.

View of part of the meeting hall (top).

A column of trucks with workers greeting the congress drives along a street in Berlin.

Demonstration of Berlin workers in support of the 12th Congress of the KPD. Speech of the speaker at one of the rallies in support of the congress.

Panorama of the rally.

Views of the streets of Berlin during the presidential elections in April 1932. Election posters and flags with Nazi symbols on the streets of the city.

Faces of people arguing on the street.

People reading a hand-drawn newspaper with posters, hung on the wall of a building.

People on a street corner (above).

Policemen on bicycles on a street in Berlin.

Communist slogans on the walls of buildings and fences, portraits of Thälmann on the walls and facades of buildings during the presidential elections of 1925. Communist slogans in support of Thälmann's candidacy on the streets of working-class districts of Berlin.

Cyclists with campaign posters on their backs.

Donation sport for the Communist Party of Germany.

People entering a polling station.

Voting at one of the polling stations.

Presidential candidate Paul von Hindenburg leaves the polling station, gets into a car.

Panorama of the communist rally in the Lustgarten.

KPD candidate Ernst Thälmann speaks at the rally.

Participants of the rally greet Thalmann, Thalmann continues his speech.

Faces of members of German youth communist organizations greeting Thalmann during his speech.

Prisoners walk in a circle in the courtyard of one of the German prisons during a walk.

Prisoners enter the prison building after the walk.

Demonstration of communist and workers' organizations of Germany on the streets of Berlin on October 21, 1928. View of the rally on one of the squares.

A column of demonstrators carrying red banners passes by.

Members of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers" at the demonstration, alongside which are carts with various models.

A figure of Bismarck on one of the carts.

Actors dressed as German militarists on carts moving in columns.

Movement of columns of demonstrators.

Veterans of the socialist movement of Germany in an open excursion bus.

Faces of veterans of the workers' and socialist movements of Germany taking part in the demonstration.

Models and artists on platforms of cargo carts in columns of demonstrators of the "Red Front".

Demonstrators carry banners and placards with slogans.

Participants of one of the rallies stand on the sidewalk with red banners in their hands.

A speaker's speech.

Panorama of the rally, a speaker on the podium speaking into a microphone.

Views and panorama of the rally, the next speaker's speech.

A column of representatives of youth communist organizations passes by, the participants of the demonstration carry red banners.