How Ernst Thälmann’s Gym Shorts ended up at the Museum. A Donation from the Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus to the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte

One of a museum’s tasks is to undertake ongoing research into the provenance of its objects. International Provenance Research Day on 13 April is an opportunity for Christopher Jütte, a provenance researcher at the DHM, to present an object donated by the German Institute of Marxism-Leninism in 1962 to the precursor of today’s museum.