Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts

Blast the Hub

Lockheed ad, Life, January 24, 1944 (see the whole ad at Vintage Ads)

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Photography: Palast der Republik

Photo by Thorsten Klapsch

Spiegel Online: Thorsten Klapsch: "Palast der Republik"

"The Palast der Republik was a showpiece building in East Berlin, a congress hall as well as a center for public entertainment. By 1993 it had been sealed off to the public. Thorsten Klapsch was the last photographer to capture its interiors before a long period of demolition began."

Via Coudal Partners
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Ephemera: Berlin Olympics 1936



As you all know Berlin hosted the Olympics in 1936. This image shows some of the programs, brochures, tickets etc which the Swedish couple Algot and Amanda Gunnarsson brought home with them after visiting Berlin during the games.

In the National Archives and the regional state archives of Sweden