The Free German Youth is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly, it was the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Foundation of the FDJ in Berlin, November 1947
FDJ members digging ditches in May 1959
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 V00138, Berlin, Erich Honecker, Rede zur Sonnenwendfeier
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 61950 0001, 1. Konferenz junger Arbeiter und Aktivisten zur Verwirklichung des Chemieprogramms
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. It was a Marxist–Leninist communist party, established in 1946 as a merger of the East German branches of the Communist Party of Germany and Social Democratic Party of Germany.
21 April 1946: Otto Grotewohl (right) and Wilhelm Pieck (left) seal the unification of the SPD and KPD with a symbolic handshake. Walter Ulbricht is seated in the foreground to the right of Grotewohl.Avraham Pisarek
The 11th Congress in Palast der Republik, East Berlin
An SED Membership Card