Kühne Luftattraktionen über den Dächern der Stadt. Photo: Hellmut Opitz. In: Hellmut Opitz (Ilop) fotografiert Karl-Marx-Stadt. VEB F. A. Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, 1965.
Air acrobats over the rooftops of the town.
Im Textilforschungsinstitut stehen hochwertige Geräte und Maschinen für die Entwicklung und Erprobung zur Verfügung. Photo: Hellmut Opitz. In: Hellmut Opitz (Ilop) fotografiert Karl-Marx-Stadt. VEB F. A. Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, 1965.
In the Textile Research Institute high-quality equipment for the development and testing is available.
Trabant P50, the original Trabant, the base of the Trabant series, c1959. Photo: scanzen.
Fun fact: the name ‘Trabant’ was chosen for this East German car in an internal contest in 1957, the year of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. In German, ‘trabant’ means ‘satellite’, and has the same meaning as the Russian word ‘sputnik’, namely ‘companion’.
Deutsche Luft Hansa passenger aircrafts (Ilyushin Il-14). In: Repülés, 1958. március (hungarian monthly aviation magazine).
Lufthansa, today’s German flag carrier, acquired the name and logo of the 1926-1945 airline upon its foundation in 1953 and considers the former airline to be part of its history, even though there is no legal link between the two companies. Between 1955 and 1963, the newly-founded East German national airline operated under the same name, but having lost a lawsuit with the West German company, it was renamed Interflug.
