Are these the earliest pictures of German skinheads?

The first picture, shot in 1979, shows bassist Erwin Lieske of Hamburg punk band Kotzbrocken (not to be confused with Cotzbrocken from Cologne) playing live at Krawall 2000, a short-lived punk venue in the St Pauli quarter. Note the two skinheads  standing behind him. This is a scan from an early German book on punk titled Der Grosse Schwindel (authors: Jürgen Stark and MIchael Kurzawa, published in 1981 and long out of print).

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