Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The first one! Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:37 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > The reason I went to Poland this week was to celebrate my sister?s > birthday with her and my brother-in-law. So we started the day with the > traditional birthday breakfast, beginning with a glass of champagne. My > sister is 15 years older than me, but I think she is keeping well: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6PD9PHf/A > > After breakfast, we went for a walk on a nearby island on the river Odra > called Ostr?w Tumski, which houses Wroc?aw?s cathedral, the archbishop?s > residence and several other church buildings. It is a beautiful, peaceful > spot to go for a walk. But in the spring of 1945 it looked quite different, > as documented by photographs affixed to the buildings: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6L2v6Jg/A > > Wroc?aw (Breslau in German) was considered by Hitler as one of the most > important cities in the Third Reich, and the city was ordered not to > surrender as the Red Army was approaching. By February 1945 the city was > surrounded and the situation hopeless but still the suicidal defense was > continued, and Breslau surrendered only on 6 May 1945, just two days before > the end of the war. As a result, the city was almost completely destroyed, > just like Berlin. Many if not most of the old buildings one sees today are > reconstructions to varying degree. > > This is what the spot in the previous photo looks like today: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-2LrmzMh/A > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information