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Roger Melis / Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig 2019

Break from Socialism: Exactly 20 years after the end of the Second World War, Roger Melis photographed on May 8, 1965, these card-playing men, who belonged to the "Kampfgruppen des Sozialismus". Members of these paramilitary units had vowed to protect the country at all times with the weapon in their hands, using their lives. Photographer Melis best describes unspectacular everyday scenes with his camera.

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