DRESDEN

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM LONDON

ELECTION TIME IN DRESDEN

THE FIRST POSTWAR COMMUNAL ELECTIONS IN THE SOVIET OCCUPATION ZONE OF DRESDEN, GERMANY TOOK PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 1. THROUGHOUT THE RUSSIAN ZONE OF GERMANY CITIES AND TOWNS WERE PLASTERED WITH THE RED AND WHITE POSTERS OF THE SOVIET SPONSORED SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY (SED). OVER 15,000 MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY CROWDED INTO THE KARL MARX PLAZA, IN SAXONY'S CAPITAL CITY OF DRESDEN, TO ATTEND THE ELECTION EVE RALLY ON AUGUST 31, 1946.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: A VIEW OF THE PACKED KARL MARX PLATZ, IN THE CITY OF DRESDEN, IN SOVIET OCCUPIED GERMANY, WHERE, ON AUGUST 31, OVER 15,000 MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY, HELD THEIR ELECTION EVE RALLY.

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