The Beier Collection – A Photographic Diary

A nice picture, and a nice story. Manfred Beier was a teacher and a photographer, who took tens of thousands of photographs during his life of both the two Germanys that emerged following the second world war. When he died in 2002 he left his collection of over 60,000 negatives and slides to his family, who worked with the National Archives in Germany to make this wonderful record of everyday life in the two Germanys available to the general public.

On the website you can see more of the images, including photographs and 8mm films…well worth checking out for a glimpse of a Germany that no longer exists.