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Series: Street fights 1919 - 1932

Headline: Police raids to maintain security, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Due to the street battles between the SA and the Rotfrontkaempferbund , the police are patrolling in order to dispel the crowds of people in time. This photograph shows two mounted policemen, who dissipate a crowd.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296331
Police raids to maintain security, 1932

Due to the street battles between the SA and the Rotfrontkaempferbund , the police are patrolling in order to dispel the crowds of people in time. This photograph shows two mounted policemen, who dissipate a crowd.
Headline: Burial of police officers Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: In a police operation against demonstrating communists, two police officers, Anlauf and Lenck, were shot. The murderer was probably Erich Mielke, who fled abroad. After 1945, Mielke became head of the state security service of the GDR. By the tomb of Anlauf stand the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Albert Grzesinki, the Berlin police chief, Berhard Weiss, the commander of the Berlin police, Magnus Heimannsberg and Genz.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296332
Burial of police officers Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, 1931

In a police operation against demonstrating communists, two police officers, Anlauf and Lenck, were shot. The murderer was probably Erich Mielke, who fled abroad. After 1945, Mielke became head of the state security service of the GDR. By the tomb of Anlauf stand the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Albert Grzesinki, the Berlin police chief, Berhard Weiss, the commander of the Berlin police, Magnus Heimannsberg and Genz.
Headline: Funeral of the Schutzpolizeioberwachtmeister (police staff sergeant) Zaenker, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Burial of the Schutzpolizeioberwachtmeister (police staff sergeant) Zaenker, who was murdered by the Communists, in the Hasenheide cemetery. His comrades escort him for the last time.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00296333
Funeral of the Schutzpolizeioberwachtmeister (police staff sergeant) Zaenker, 1931

Burial of the Schutzpolizeioberwachtmeister (police staff sergeant) Zaenker, who was murdered by the Communists, in the Hasenheide cemetery. His comrades escort him for the last time.
Headline: Funeral of the Schutzpolizeioberwachtmeister (police staff sergeant) Zaenker, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The funeral of the police officer murdered by the Communists at the Hasenheide garrison cemetery in Berlin.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00296334
Funeral of the Schutzpolizeioberwachtmeister (police staff sergeant) Zaenker, 1931

The funeral of the police officer murdered by the Communists at the Hasenheide garrison cemetery in Berlin.
Headline: Cars are being searched for weapons, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Policemen search a truck for hidden firearms. The cause is the increasingly radical street fights between the Rotkaempferbund and the SA in the Berlin working-class districts of Neukoelln and Wedding.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296335
Cars are being searched for weapons, 1929

Policemen search a truck for hidden firearms. The cause is the increasingly radical street fights between the Rotkaempferbund and the SA in the Berlin working-class districts of Neukoelln and Wedding.
Headline: Policemen clearing a street, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Mounted Berlin policemen are clearing the Spandauer Strasse of counter demonstrators, who want to break up a rally of the Reichsbanner. At this time, there are many bloody conflicts between the hostile two parties, especially in Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296336
Policemen clearing a street, 1931

Mounted Berlin policemen are clearing the Spandauer Strasse of counter demonstrators, who want to break up a rally of the Reichsbanner. At this time, there are many bloody conflicts between the hostile two parties, especially in Berlin.
Headline: Uprisings in Berlin, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: The extent of the destruction after the Berlin uprisings, 1929

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296337
Uprisings in Berlin, 1929

The extent of the destruction after the Berlin uprisings, 1929
Headline: Image of a brutal street fight, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: The growing brutality of the political conflicts during the world economic crisis is also reflected in the fine arts.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296338
Image of a brutal street fight, 1929

The growing brutality of the political conflicts during the world economic crisis is also reflected in the fine arts.
Headline: Patrol with the new police high-speed car, 1923

Date: 01.01.1923

Image text: Patrol of the Berlin police with the new "Schnellwagen" (high-speed car), which should take them fast to the scene of street fights.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00296339
Patrol with the new police high-speed car, 1923

Patrol of the Berlin police with the new "Schnellwagen" (high-speed car), which should take them fast to the scene of street fights.
Headline: Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police

Date: 01.01.1919

Image text: Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296340
Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police

Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic
Headline: Police cleans the streets at the University of Berlin, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: There were frequently heavy clashes between the student supporters of the Communist Party and the NSDAP at the University of Berlin, where the police had to intervene.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296341
Police cleans the streets at the University of Berlin, 1931

There were frequently heavy clashes between the student supporters of the Communist Party and the NSDAP at the University of Berlin, where the police had to intervene.
Headline: Burial of the murdered National Socialist Herrmann Tielsch, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Burial of Herrmann Tielsch, murdered by the Communists, in the municipal cemetery at Bergmannstrasse in Berlin. The parents of the victim walk along with the clergymen and the guards of honor. The participants show the Hitler salute.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296342
Burial of the murdered National Socialist Herrmann Tielsch, 1931

Burial of Herrmann Tielsch, murdered by the Communists, in the municipal cemetery at Bergmannstrasse in Berlin. The parents of the victim walk along with the clergymen and the guards of honor. The participants show the Hitler salute.
Headline: Police tries to protect the Reichsbanner demonstration, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Mounted policemen are trying to protect a Reichsbanner rally from counter demonstrators in the Berlin Lustgarten.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296343
Police tries to protect the Reichsbanner demonstration, 1931

Mounted policemen are trying to protect a Reichsbanner rally from counter demonstrators in the Berlin Lustgarten.
Headline: Vandalism and looting at the demonstration of the unemployed, 1930

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: During the World Economic Crisis, demonstrations of the unemployed become frequent, and many shop windows were smashed. Sickness and misery are so great that the shop windows are usually plundered in a few minutes, as here in Karstadt.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296344
Vandalism and looting at the demonstration of the unemployed, 1930

During the World Economic Crisis, demonstrations of the unemployed become frequent, and many shop windows were smashed. Sickness and misery are so great that the shop windows are usually plundered in a few minutes, as here in Karstadt.
Headline: Monument of murdered policemen, 1933

Date: 01.01.1933

Image text: In 1933, the new government built a memorial in honor of the two police chiefs, Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, at the Horst-Wessel-Platz in Berlin. The two were probably murdered by the Communist Erich Mielke in 1931.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296345
Monument of murdered policemen, 1933

In 1933, the new government built a memorial in honor of the two police chiefs, Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, at the Horst-Wessel-Platz in Berlin. The two were probably murdered by the Communist Erich Mielke in 1931.
Headline: Police are searching participants of a street fight for weapons, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: After a clash between the KPD and NSDAP in the working-class district of Neukoelln , the police searched the participants for weapons. With the beginning of the global economic crisis and the increasing number of unemployed people, the political disputes are becoming more and more acute.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296346
Police are searching participants of a street fight for weapons, 1929

After a clash between the KPD and NSDAP in the working-class district of Neukoelln , the police searched the participants for weapons. With the beginning of the global economic crisis and the increasing number of unemployed people, the political disputes are becoming more and more acute.
Headline: Policemen chase participants of a street fight, 1931

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: There are frequent bloody conflicts between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund, which demand casualties every week, especially in the working-class districts of Moabit and Wedding. In this photograph the police tries to catch the fugitives. Berlin is in a situation similar to a civil war.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296347
Policemen chase participants of a street fight, 1931

There are frequent bloody conflicts between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund, which demand casualties every week, especially in the working-class districts of Moabit and Wedding. In this photograph the police tries to catch the fugitives. Berlin is in a situation similar to a civil war.
Headline: The Berlin Schutzpolizei is clearing the streets, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The policemen are clearing the streets during one of the numerous battles between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296348
The Berlin Schutzpolizei is clearing the streets, 1931

The policemen are clearing the streets during one of the numerous battles between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund.
Headline: The police secures the sidewalk opposite the Berlin City Hall, 1930

Date: 04.12.1930

Image text: There are street fights between the Rotkaempferbund and the SA, during which the police secures the pavement opposite the Berlin City Hall.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296349
The police secures the sidewalk opposite the Berlin City Hall, 1930

There are street fights between the Rotkaempferbund and the SA, during which the police secures the pavement opposite the Berlin City Hall.
Headline: Chase of a ragger by a police officer, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: Chase of a ragger by the police on the day of the opening of the Reichstag.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296350
Chase of a ragger by a police officer, 1930

Chase of a ragger by the police on the day of the opening of the Reichstag.
Headline: Brawl at a political meeting in Dresden, 1933

Date: 26.01.1933

Image text: Exterior of the Kegelheim, where a Communist meeting was held, which had to be cleared by the police after a political brawl. There were gunshots, which killed 9 people and seriously injured 11 victims. The only photo of the "Dresdener Saalschlacht" (roughhouse in Dresden), an exclusive picture of the New York Times Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296351
Brawl at a political meeting in Dresden, 1933

Exterior of the Kegelheim, where a Communist meeting was held, which had to be cleared by the police after a political brawl. There were gunshots, which killed 9 people and seriously injured 11 victims. The only photo of the "Dresdener Saalschlacht" (roughhouse in Dresden), an exclusive picture of the New York Times Berlin.
Headline: Police clearing a street, 1930

Date: 04.12.1930

Image text: Policemen clear the streets after fights between the unemployed.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296352
Police clearing a street, 1930

Policemen clear the streets after fights between the unemployed.
Headline: Demolished Friedrichshaus, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: The Friedrichshaus was demolished in a political brawl between Communists and the SA.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296353
Demolished Friedrichshaus, 1930

The Friedrichshaus was demolished in a political brawl between Communists and the SA.
Headline: Caricature in the "Simplicissimus", 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The "Simplicissimus" presents the increasing violence of the political disputes, especially between the KPD and NSDAP, with this caricature.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296354
Caricature in the "Simplicissimus", 1931

The "Simplicissimus" presents the increasing violence of the political disputes, especially between the KPD and NSDAP, with this caricature.
Headline: Policemen search SA-Sturm members for arms, 1928

Date: 01.01.1928

Image text: There were frequent clashes between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296355
Policemen search SA-Sturm members for arms, 1928

There were frequent clashes between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund
Headline: Street fight between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund, 1933

Date: 01.01.1933

Image text: After the murder of the SA man Horst Wessel, there are street fights between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund, in which the police have to intervene.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296356
Street fight between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund, 1933

After the murder of the SA man Horst Wessel, there are street fights between the SA and the Rotkaempferbund, in which the police have to intervene.
Headline: Injured woman after a street fight, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: This press photo was taken after a street battle between the Rotkaempferbund and the SA shortly before the Reichstag elections in Berlin. It shows a woman, who was injured during the street fights, and is being taken care of by many passers-by.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296357
Injured woman after a street fight, 1930

This press photo was taken after a street battle between the Rotkaempferbund and the SA shortly before the Reichstag elections in Berlin. It shows a woman, who was injured during the street fights, and is being taken care of by many passers-by.
Headline: Berlin riots on the day of the Reichstag meeting, 1930

Date: 13.10.1930

Image text: After riots on the occasion of the Reichstag meeting, shop windows have to be restored provisionally. Almost all department stores were damaged in the Leipziger Strasse. Numerous arrests occured, and the accused were held responsible before a judge.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296358
Berlin riots on the day of the Reichstag meeting, 1930

After riots on the occasion of the Reichstag meeting, shop windows have to be restored provisionally. Almost all department stores were damaged in the Leipziger Strasse. Numerous arrests occured, and the accused were held responsible before a judge.
Headline: Burial of the innkeeper Boewer, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The innkeeper Boewer, shot by the Communists, is buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Bergmannstrasse. This photograph shows his relatives at the crypt.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296359
Burial of the innkeeper Boewer, 1931

The innkeeper Boewer, shot by the Communists, is buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Bergmannstrasse. This photograph shows his relatives at the crypt.
Headline: Arrests of protesters, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: The protesters pursued by the police flee to the zoo where they are captured and arrested.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296360
Arrests of protesters, 1930

The protesters pursued by the police flee to the zoo where they are captured and arrested.
Headline: Shop window of a department store with bullet holes, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Shop windows were destroyed in the street battles and demonstrations. The crowd is serving itself for free before the police can intervene, as from the shop windows of Wertheim in Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296361
Shop window of a department store with bullet holes, 1932

Shop windows were destroyed in the street battles and demonstrations. The crowd is serving itself for free before the police can intervene, as from the shop windows of Wertheim in Berlin.
Headline: Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police

Date: 01.01.1919

Image text: Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296362
Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police

Street fights: SA, Rotfront, police, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic
Headline: Renewal of the paving stones on the streets

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: The paving stones have to be renovated on the streets. Undated photo, presumably 1930.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296363
Renewal of the paving stones on the streets

The paving stones have to be renovated on the streets. Undated photo, presumably 1930.
Headline: Shot tram stop

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Streetcar stop shot to pieces in the working-class district of Wedding in Berlin, after a clash between the police and communist demonstrators. The severity of domestic political clashes increased from month to month. Undated photo, presumably 1930.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296364
Shot tram stop

Streetcar stop shot to pieces in the working-class district of Wedding in Berlin, after a clash between the police and communist demonstrators. The severity of domestic political clashes increased from month to month. Undated photo, presumably 1930.
Headline: Demolished car compartment of a suburban train, 1933

Date: 01.01.1933

Image text: A car compartment of a suburban train, demolished by the communists, in which supporters of the SA Motor Sturm were sitting.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296365
Demolished car compartment of a suburban train, 1933

A car compartment of a suburban train, demolished by the communists, in which supporters of the SA Motor Sturm were sitting.
Headline: Berliner Kindl, a National Socialist restaurant, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Attacks of Communists on the National Socialist restaurant Berliner Kindl. The attackers fired around 40 shots, injuring several people.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296366
Berliner Kindl, a National Socialist restaurant, 1931

Attacks of Communists on the National Socialist restaurant Berliner Kindl. The attackers fired around 40 shots, injuring several people.
Headline: Water gun in front of the police station of Moabit, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: The police posesses a water gun for the first time, which they can use against KPD demonstrators.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296367
Water gun in front of the police station of Moabit, 1932

The police posesses a water gun for the first time, which they can use against KPD demonstrators.
Headline: Armed police patrolmen, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Armed police patrols secured a street in Berlin after a shooting between Communists and SA men. With the start of the global economic crisis and the high number of unemployed people, the domestic political struggles are becoming more and more aggravated.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00296368
Armed police patrolmen, 1929

Armed police patrols secured a street in Berlin after a shooting between Communists and SA men. With the start of the global economic crisis and the high number of unemployed people, the domestic political struggles are becoming more and more aggravated.
Headline: Laying out of the SA men Gleuel and Apel

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: The laying out of the SA men Gleuel and Apel, who had been deadly injured by political opponents during a fire attack in Berlin-Koepenick. Probably 1930.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296369
Laying out of the SA men Gleuel and Apel

The laying out of the SA men Gleuel and Apel, who had been deadly injured by political opponents during a fire attack in Berlin-Koepenick. Probably 1930.
Headline: Soldiers standing guard, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: On August the 9th, 1932, the government of Papen threatened with penitentiary and death penalty for violent acts. Five SS men got the death penalty after they had murdered the Communist Potempa with cold-blood. Hitler idealised them in his ideological struggle as martyrs. In many places protests and new street battles were taking place. Here, police officers keep watch on a street in Beuthen.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296370
Soldiers standing guard, 1932

On August the 9th, 1932, the government of Papen threatened with penitentiary and death penalty for violent acts. Five SS men got the death penalty after they had murdered the Communist Potempa with cold-blood. Hitler idealised them in his ideological struggle as martyrs. In many places protests and new street battles were taking place. Here, police officers keep watch on a street in Beuthen.
Headline: Communist students in front of the closed University of Berlin, 1935

Date: 01.01.1935

Image text: A group of communist students in front of the closed university of Berlin. After a series of clashes between national and communist students, privy councilor and rector Luders was forced to close the university.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296371
Communist students in front of the closed University of Berlin, 1935

A group of communist students in front of the closed university of Berlin. After a series of clashes between national and communist students, privy councilor and rector Luders was forced to close the university.
Headline: Armed police officers, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Armed policemen after bloody clashes in the working-class district of Wedding in Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296372
Armed police officers, 1932

Armed policemen after bloody clashes in the working-class district of Wedding in Berlin.
Headline: Burial of the shot innkeeper Boewer, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The innkeeper Boewer, shot by the Communists, is buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Bergmannstrasse.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296373
Burial of the shot innkeeper Boewer, 1931

The innkeeper Boewer, shot by the Communists, is buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Bergmannstrasse.
Headline: Communist threats against Fascists and Stahlhelm, circa 1920s

Date: 01.01.1920

Image text: At a Berlin house entrance Communists have painted death threats against Fascists and members of the Stahlhelm. There were street battles between SA and the Rotfrontkaempferbund especially in the working class districts.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296749
Communist threats against Fascists and Stahlhelm, circa 1920s

At a Berlin house entrance Communists have painted death threats against Fascists and members of the Stahlhelm. There were street battles between SA and the Rotfrontkaempferbund especially in the working class districts.
Headline: Street battles between the KPD and SA, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: This is the dissolution of a prohibited demonstration of the Rotfrontkaempferbund (Red Front Fighting Association) in Berlin. The police rigorously pommels with their rubber truncheon the protesters.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00032803
Street battles between the KPD and SA, 1929

This is the dissolution of a prohibited demonstration of the Rotfrontkaempferbund (Red Front Fighting Association) in Berlin. The police rigorously pommels with their rubber truncheon the protesters.
Headline: Brawl between Communists and Nazis

Date: 01.01.1928

Image text: Brawls between Nazis and Communists were common, especially in the years of the Great Depression, when many unemployed joined the extremist parties. Probably a film scene from "Horst Wessel", 1933.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00032153
Brawl between Communists and Nazis

Brawls between Nazis and Communists were common, especially in the years of the Great Depression, when many unemployed joined the extremist parties. Probably a film scene from "Horst Wessel", 1933.
Headline: Riots in Berlin caused by high unemployment, which resulted in street battles in which communists clashed with the NSDAP, Berlin, May 1929

Date: 01.05.1929

Image text: A queue for a homeless shelter in Berlin, prompted by massive unemployment and a housing crisis, Berlin.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00032812
Riots in Berlin caused by high unemployment, which resulted in street battles in which communists clashed with the NSDAP, Berlin, May 1929

A queue for a homeless shelter in Berlin, prompted by massive unemployment and a housing crisis, Berlin.
Headline: Street fight, 1929

Date: 01.05.1929

Image text: Street fight on May Day in Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00296326
Street fight, 1929

Street fight on May Day in Berlin.
Headline: Sir Oswald Mosley after a riot during a campaign rally in the 1930s

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: The head of the British National Socialists, the British Union of Fascists, Mosley (in the stands with a mustache) considers the ruins of a brawl that broke out during an election rally of his party at the general election campaign in Birmingham. Next to him with melon his constant bodyguard B. Kid Lewis.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00047662
Sir Oswald Mosley after a riot during a campaign rally in the 1930s

The head of the British National Socialists, the British Union of Fascists, Mosley (in the stands with a mustache) considers the ruins of a brawl that broke out during an election rally of his party at the general election campaign in Birmingham. Next to him with melon his constant bodyguard B. Kid Lewis.
Headline: The police searches NSDAP followers, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: Policemen search demonstrators of the NSDAP for weapons during the election campaign.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00110025
The police searches NSDAP followers, 1930

Policemen search demonstrators of the NSDAP for weapons during the election campaign.