The image below represents a flyer put out by the Evangelische Studenten-Gemeinden Westberlin (ESG), calling for viewers to stand up for peace, by attending a demonstration to be held on the occasion of US-American President Ronald Reagan’s visit to West Berlin, in June 1982. The specific concern is to prevent the stationing of new nuclear weapons across Europe, in the Cold War West and East. Europeans are implicitly represented in the person of a female protester who, though in dress and heels, demonstrates sufficient strength to kick away an unwanted nuclear rocket. [...]
The image below represents a flyer put out by the Evangelische Studenten-Gemeinden Westberlin (ESG), calling for viewers to stand up for peace, by attending a demonstration to be held on the occasion of American President Ronald Reagan’s visit to West Berlin, in June 1982. The specific concern is to prevent the stationing of new nuclear weapons across Europe, in the Cold War West and East. Europeans are implicitly represented in the person of a female protester who, though in dress and heels, demonstrates sufficient strength to kick away an unwanted nuclear rocket. The message seems forthright and quite simple. But as an exemplar of the era’s iconography, the flyer would have communicated a range of meanings and associations. One of thousands of such images and associated texts in West Germany/West Berlin alone, the flyer was part of a popular political movement across NATO-allied Europe, protesting NATO’s new “double-track” strategy of rearmament alongside continued détente. [...]
Schon wenige Tage nach dem Sieg bei Jena und Auerstedt am 14. Oktober 1806 zogen alle französischen Armeekorps weiter, um sich von drei Seiten der preußischen Hauptstadt zu nähern. Napoleon selbst hielt sich ab dem 24. Oktober zweieinhalb Tage in Potsdam auf, ritt am 26. Oktober nachmittags nach Spandau und Charlottenburg und vollzog, umgeben von seinen Generalen, seinen feierlichen Einzug in Berlin am späten Nachmittag des 27. Oktobers.[...]