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Headline: Youth hostel, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: A dormitory of the Jugendwandererheim in Berlin-Charlottenburg. During the banking crisis many young people moved from city to city in search of work.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294932
Youth hostel, 1932

A dormitory of the Jugendwandererheim in Berlin-Charlottenburg. During the banking crisis many young people moved from city to city in search of work.
Headline: Shanty town in Upper Silesia, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Unemployed miners and their families live in shacks in the shanty towns of the Upper Silesian coal-mining district, because they can no longer pay the rent. In 1932 there were almost 6 million people without work in Germany and on the edges of the large cities the slums were growing.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00118187
Shanty town in Upper Silesia, 1932

Unemployed miners and their families live in shacks in the shanty towns of the Upper Silesian coal-mining district, because they can no longer pay the rent. In 1932 there were almost 6 million people without work in Germany and on the edges of the large cities the slums were growing.
Headline: Dining-room during the economic crisis, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Vulnerable people in a room with free meals served during the Great Depression.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00100795
Dining-room during the economic crisis, 1932

Vulnerable people in a room with free meals served during the Great Depression.
Headline: Amateur presentation of the financial situation during the Great Depression in 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: At the culmination of the Depression in 1932 a Berlin newspaper asked its readers to present their financial situation on a picture and send it to the editorial office. The best photo was awarded. Among the first prizes was this shot with the headline: 'Two friends meet in the park and talk about their business prospects.'

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00090028
Amateur presentation of the financial situation during the Great Depression in 1932

At the culmination of the Depression in 1932 a Berlin newspaper asked its readers to present their financial situation on a picture and send it to the editorial office. The best photo was awarded. Among the first prizes was this shot with the headline: 'Two friends meet in the park and talk about their business prospects.'
Headline: Students and street musicians, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: During the Great Depression, students try to earn their living as street musicians.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00084764
Students and street musicians, 1932

During the Great Depression, students try to earn their living as street musicians.
Headline: Transporting Deutsche Marks, 1948 (b/w photo)

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Loading a carriage with American printed banknotes at the railway station in Bremerhaven, the western powers introduced a new currency, the Deutsche Mark, into their occupation zones on 21st June 1948 to replace the old devalued Reichsmark, D-Mark, nachkriegszeit, geschichte,

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00068853
Transporting Deutsche Marks, 1948 (b/w photo)

Loading a carriage with American printed banknotes at the railway station in Bremerhaven, the western powers introduced a new currency, the Deutsche Mark, into their occupation zones on 21st June 1948 to replace the old devalued Reichsmark, D-Mark, nachkriegszeit, geschichte,
Headline: Journeymen, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Journeymen on a country street.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00041629
Journeymen, 1932

Journeymen on a country street.
Headline: Field kitchen in Berlin during the Great Depression, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Soldiers of the III. Battalion of the Infantry Regiment 9 distribute in Spandau and Ruhleben food from their field kitchen to the population.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00040481
Field kitchen in Berlin during the Great Depression, 1932

Soldiers of the III. Battalion of the Infantry Regiment 9 distribute in Spandau and Ruhleben food from their field kitchen to the population.
Headline: Men on a horse cart, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: A farmer transports men on a horse cart. During the Great Depression many unemployed roam in order to find work.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00040471
Men on a horse cart, 1932

A farmer transports men on a horse cart. During the Great Depression many unemployed roam in order to find work.
Headline: Organ grinder during the Great Depression, 1932/33

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: An unemployed plays barrel-organ, while playing children listen to him.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00040470
Organ grinder during the Great Depression, 1932/33

An unemployed plays barrel-organ, while playing children listen to him.
Headline: People in need on a soup kitchen in Berlin during the world economic crisis, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Men eat soup which they have received in the soup kitchen. Next to a poorly dressed man, on the left, there are also two better dressed who depend on the free food distribution.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00017353
People in need on a soup kitchen in Berlin during the world economic crisis, 1932

Men eat soup which they have received in the soup kitchen. Next to a poorly dressed man, on the left, there are also two better dressed who depend on the free food distribution.
Headline: Unemployed in Berlin, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Unemployed people have built a 'summerhouse' from waste - on a place called Wilmersdorfer eyesore on the Hindenburg street in Wilmersdorf .

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00113322
Unemployed in Berlin, 1931

Unemployed people have built a 'summerhouse' from waste - on a place called Wilmersdorfer eyesore on the Hindenburg street in Wilmersdorf .
Headline: Field kitchen in Berlin during the Great Depression, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Soldiers of the Reichswehr distribute food to the population in Berlin-Niederschoenhausen with their field kitchen. The costs were covered by the Protestant church through donations.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00040480
Field kitchen in Berlin during the Great Depression, 1931

Soldiers of the Reichswehr distribute food to the population in Berlin-Niederschoenhausen with their field kitchen. The costs were covered by the Protestant church through donations.
Headline: Distribution of bread to children from unemployed families, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: During the Great Depression bread is distributed to children from unemployed families.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00040458
Distribution of bread to children from unemployed families, 1931

During the Great Depression bread is distributed to children from unemployed families.
Headline: Collection of potatoes and briquettes at a Berlin school, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The pupils of the Kaiser-Friedrich school in Berlin-Charlottenburg bring daily a potato or a briquette during the Great Depression, in order to support the "Winter Help".

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00040456
Collection of potatoes and briquettes at a Berlin school, 1931

The pupils of the Kaiser-Friedrich school in Berlin-Charlottenburg bring daily a potato or a briquette during the Great Depression, in order to support the "Winter Help".
Headline: Care for the unemployed in Berlin, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: The unemployed receive coffee and rolls, in the scope of the poor feeding of the Berlin organization "Dienst am Arbeitssohn". The charity is based in the "Schrippenkirche" (rolls church) in the Acher Street.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00040457
Care for the unemployed in Berlin, 1930

The unemployed receive coffee and rolls, in the scope of the poor feeding of the Berlin organization "Dienst am Arbeitssohn". The charity is based in the "Schrippenkirche" (rolls church) in the Acher Street.
Headline: Unemployed while hitchhiking

Date: 25.10.1929

Image text: This unemployed man travels hitchhiking across Germany, looking for work, during the Great Depression between 1929-1932.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00068868
Unemployed while hitchhiking

This unemployed man travels hitchhiking across Germany, looking for work, during the Great Depression between 1929-1932.
Headline: Unemployed tramps, 1929

Date: 25.10.1929

Image text: Homeless unemployed during the Great Depression between 1929-1932 sitting without shoes or worn down soles with their belongings on the lawn in a park.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00068861
Unemployed tramps, 1929

Homeless unemployed during the Great Depression between 1929-1932 sitting without shoes or worn down soles with their belongings on the lawn in a park.
Headline: Antique trade, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Impoverished manor lords, distressed heirs of old castles and members of the nobility sell knight's armors at the Berlin antique market to obtain cash.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294986
Antique trade, 1931

Impoverished manor lords, distressed heirs of old castles and members of the nobility sell knight's armors at the Berlin antique market to obtain cash.
Headline: Great depression: distress and misery of the people

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: Great depression: distress and misery of the people, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294988
Great depression: distress and misery of the people

Great depression: distress and misery of the people, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic
Headline: Unemployed homeless at the distribution of food, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: Unemployed homeless people in Berlin, especially young and old, are standing at the food counter. In times of crisis young and old people were served first.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294987
Unemployed homeless at the distribution of food, 1931

Unemployed homeless people in Berlin, especially young and old, are standing at the food counter. In times of crisis young and old people were served first.
Headline: Antique trade, 1930s

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Impoverished manor lords, distressed heirs of old castles and members of the nobility sell knight's armors at the Berlin antique market to obtain cash. The sellers are looking mostly for dollar customers. The photograph shows a dealer assembling a suit of armor.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294985
Antique trade, 1930s

Impoverished manor lords, distressed heirs of old castles and members of the nobility sell knight's armors at the Berlin antique market to obtain cash. The sellers are looking mostly for dollar customers. The photograph shows a dealer assembling a suit of armor.
Headline: Trading with old armor equipment, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: During the global economic crisis, more and more old knight's armors are being offered for sale. This photograph shows traders looking at a suit of armor.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294984
Trading with old armor equipment, 1931

During the global economic crisis, more and more old knight's armors are being offered for sale. This photograph shows traders looking at a suit of armor.
Headline: Pensioners in a park, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The emergency reduction of the pensions affects the pensioners particularly hard, since the pension is scarce anyway. This image shows retirees in the park.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294983
Pensioners in a park, 1931

The emergency reduction of the pensions affects the pensioners particularly hard, since the pension is scarce anyway. This image shows retirees in the park.
Headline: Unemployed in a public soup kitchen, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: Unemployed during the distribution of food in the public kitchen, also called soup kitchen.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294982
Unemployed in a public soup kitchen, 1930

Unemployed during the distribution of food in the public kitchen, also called soup kitchen.
Headline: Omnibus line in Berlin, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Free bus line for the unemployed in Berlin. This offer was used frequently.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294981
Omnibus line in Berlin, 1932

Free bus line for the unemployed in Berlin. This offer was used frequently.
Headline: Unemployed sleeping, 1932

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Many unemployed people try to find work in the conurbations, as here in Hamburg. After vain attempts at finding a job, and after they run out of money, they can often afford only to sleep on ropes for a few hours to protect themselves from the weather.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294980
Unemployed sleeping, 1932

Many unemployed people try to find work in the conurbations, as here in Hamburg. After vain attempts at finding a job, and after they run out of money, they can often afford only to sleep on ropes for a few hours to protect themselves from the weather.
Headline: Poor father with child, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: In 1932 the number of unemployed rose to 6 million, almost one third of the population. The misery is particularly bad in the industrial areas of big cities. In most cases, benefits are not enough to buy the most necessary food.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294979
Poor father with child, 1932

In 1932 the number of unemployed rose to 6 million, almost one third of the population. The misery is particularly bad in the industrial areas of big cities. In most cases, benefits are not enough to buy the most necessary food.
Headline: Unemployed people on a park bench, 1929

Date: 17.09.1929

Image text: An unemployed person is sitting on a park bench. In the years of the Great Depression this is a common picture. Given six million unemployed, the state welfare assistance is no longer enough.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294978
Unemployed people on a park bench, 1929

An unemployed person is sitting on a park bench. In the years of the Great Depression this is a common picture. Given six million unemployed, the state welfare assistance is no longer enough.
Headline: Housing of unemployed people, 1929

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Many unemployed people lived with their families in run-down tenement houses and modest cellar rooms with deficient sanitary facilities, which were shared by up to 25 parties. During the Great Depression, is some cases they were starving for days, weeks, months and years. New clothes were not affordable and often there was nothing else but stale bread. The picture shows several women with children.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294977
Housing of unemployed people, 1929

Many unemployed people lived with their families in run-down tenement houses and modest cellar rooms with deficient sanitary facilities, which were shared by up to 25 parties. During the Great Depression, is some cases they were starving for days, weeks, months and years. New clothes were not affordable and often there was nothing else but stale bread. The picture shows several women with children.
Headline: Castle and farmyard of Gut Kunersdorf, 1932

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Agriculture is also hard hit by the years of depression. Many farmers have given up even East Elbian manor and castle owners. This photograph shows the castle and farmstead of Gut Kunersdorf.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294976
Castle and farmyard of Gut Kunersdorf, 1932

Agriculture is also hard hit by the years of depression. Many farmers have given up even East Elbian manor and castle owners. This photograph shows the castle and farmstead of Gut Kunersdorf.
Headline: Employment-creation measure, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: This photograph shows long-term unemployed in the construction of a road in the outskirts of Berlin. This work was part of the job creation program, which was created by the municipality administration specifically for them. But even this type of work often cannot be paid.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294975
Employment-creation measure, 1932

This photograph shows long-term unemployed in the construction of a road in the outskirts of Berlin. This work was part of the job creation program, which was created by the municipality administration specifically for them. But even this type of work often cannot be paid.
Headline: Unemployed carpenters at work, 1929-1932

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Unemployed carpenters produce toys in a carpentry workshop. The Protestant Welfare Neukoelln provides to unemployed artisans space and material for the completion of objects, which they can then sell at a bazaar.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00294974
Unemployed carpenters at work, 1929-1932

Unemployed carpenters produce toys in a carpentry workshop. The Protestant Welfare Neukoelln provides to unemployed artisans space and material for the completion of objects, which they can then sell at a bazaar.
Headline: Needy children, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: The picture shows distressed children. By 1932, the number of unemployed rises, who with their families are over six million people, or one-third of the population. The children run barefoot even until the beginning of the winter, footwear is often too luxurious. Sickness and misery are getting worse and worse after the reduction of unemployment benefits.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294973
Needy children, 1932

The picture shows distressed children. By 1932, the number of unemployed rises, who with their families are over six million people, or one-third of the population. The children run barefoot even until the beginning of the winter, footwear is often too luxurious. Sickness and misery are getting worse and worse after the reduction of unemployment benefits.
Headline: Needy children, 1932

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: The picture shows distressed children. By 1932, the number of unemployed rises, who with their families are over six million people, or one-third of the population. The children run barefoot even until the beginning of the winter, footwear is often too luxurious. Sickness and misery are getting worse and worse after the reduction of unemployment benefits.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294972
Needy children, 1932

The picture shows distressed children. By 1932, the number of unemployed rises, who with their families are over six million people, or one-third of the population. The children run barefoot even until the beginning of the winter, footwear is often too luxurious. Sickness and misery are getting worse and worse after the reduction of unemployment benefits.
Headline: Charitable feeding of the unemployed in a "Schrippenkirchen", 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: In the evangelical churches there are charity meals with cakes and hot soup for the unemployed. These are accompanied by pious speeches and a harmonium music.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294971
Charitable feeding of the unemployed in a "Schrippenkirchen", 1932

In the evangelical churches there are charity meals with cakes and hot soup for the unemployed. These are accompanied by pious speeches and a harmonium music.
Headline: Free food for the unemployed, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: The picture shows the free distribution of food to the unemployed in a Berlin church. All the private and government support do not really alleviate the suffering.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294970
Free food for the unemployed, 1930

The picture shows the free distribution of food to the unemployed in a Berlin church. All the private and government support do not really alleviate the suffering.
Headline: Arrest of an unemployed, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The Berlin Schutzpolizei arrested an unemployed man at a demonstration within the protection zone around the Reichstag building.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294969
Arrest of an unemployed, 1931

The Berlin Schutzpolizei arrested an unemployed man at a demonstration within the protection zone around the Reichstag building.
Headline: Demonstration of KPD workers, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: KPD workers demonstrate in Berlin. On the poster: United front of the capital and United front of the exploited.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294968
Demonstration of KPD workers, 1930

KPD workers demonstrate in Berlin. On the poster: United front of the capital and United front of the exploited.
Headline: Demonstration of the unemployed, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Workers and police encounter in front of the labor office. Such clashes happened often in tense situations.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294967
Demonstration of the unemployed, 1932

Workers and police encounter in front of the labor office. Such clashes happened often in tense situations.
Headline: Needy worker family, 1929-1932

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Many working-class families live in want, and the aid received is often not enough for a family of several people. Many women, like this one, are trying to compensate it by working and do not shrink from heavy work. Shoes are precious and are spared for the winter, in summer people walk barefoot.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294965
Needy worker family, 1929-1932

Many working-class families live in want, and the aid received is often not enough for a family of several people. Many women, like this one, are trying to compensate it by working and do not shrink from heavy work. Shoes are precious and are spared for the winter, in summer people walk barefoot.
Headline: Job search in Berlin

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: This photograph shows unemployed people, who went to Berlin in search for work and have spent their last money. They have to spend the night outdoors in the guesthouse zum goldenen Eck.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294964
Job search in Berlin

This photograph shows unemployed people, who went to Berlin in search for work and have spent their last money. They have to spend the night outdoors in the guesthouse zum goldenen Eck.
Headline: Election poster, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: The election poster after a draft by Hans Schweitzer with the slogan "Our last hope is Hitler" promises a way out of poverty and unemployment, if one votes for Hitler.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294963
Election poster, 1932

The election poster after a draft by Hans Schweitzer with the slogan "Our last hope is Hitler" promises a way out of poverty and unemployment, if one votes for Hitler.
Headline: Free lunch for the unemployed, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: This image shows the distribution of a free lunch to unemployed workers.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294961
Free lunch for the unemployed, 1931

This image shows the distribution of a free lunch to unemployed workers.
Headline: Feeding the unemployed and their loved ones during the Christmas holiday, 1931

Date: 01.01.1931

Image text: The restaurant Kempinsky takes over the feeding of 500 unemployed and their relatives over the holidays.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294959
Feeding the unemployed and their loved ones during the Christmas holiday, 1931

The restaurant Kempinsky takes over the feeding of 500 unemployed and their relatives over the holidays.
Headline: Tramps

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: A "tramp" packs food out and his comrade next to him expects this with impatience. Tens of thousands of unemployed flee from the big cities to the countryside in search of a job.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294958
Tramps

A "tramp" packs food out and his comrade next to him expects this with impatience. Tens of thousands of unemployed flee from the big cities to the countryside in search of a job.
Headline: Issue of permissions to beg

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: This photograph shows distressed people, who receive beggar permits from the village board. Poverty was big not only in the city, but also in the villages, for this reason the villagers go to the surrounding villages with the beggar permits.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294957
Issue of permissions to beg

This photograph shows distressed people, who receive beggar permits from the village board. Poverty was big not only in the city, but also in the villages, for this reason the villagers go to the surrounding villages with the beggar permits.
Headline: Queue in front of the Arbeitsamt (Job Center) Berlin, 1932

Date: 01.01.1932

Image text: Many unemployed people are queuing in front of the employment agency, but there is hardly any hope left that they will get a job.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294956
Queue in front of the Arbeitsamt (Job Center) Berlin, 1932

Many unemployed people are queuing in front of the employment agency, but there is hardly any hope left that they will get a job.
Headline: World economic crisis: poverty and misery of the population, A family

Date: 01.01.1929

Image text: Unemployed people and their families on the way to the country to find a job there. World economic crisis: poverty and misery of the population, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00294955
World economic crisis: poverty and misery of the population, A family

Unemployed people and their families on the way to the country to find a job there. World economic crisis: poverty and misery of the population, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic
Headline: Feeding of unemployed people in Berlin, 1930

Date: 01.01.1930

Image text: This photograph shows unemployed people eating free food in Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00294954
Feeding of unemployed people in Berlin, 1930

This photograph shows unemployed people eating free food in Berlin.