Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not a place I would want to go on holiday, even though it is in a beautiful part of the country. But you documented it very well. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Nov 21, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > > Hello all, > > Some shots from our recent trip to Stralsund and across the bridge to the > island of Ruegen. > > Binz is a holiday resort from the times of the German Kaisers - and has > not changed much since. > > Prora is a development from an even darker era of German history - and has > not changed at all. > > Built by the KdF movement as a happy holiday home for tens of thousands of > Nazis, it was never actually completed and used for its intended purpose. > > Its varied post-war history includes use as barracks for the GDR > Volksarmee (the perpetuation of German dictatorship under a different > political colour), accommodation for Russian occupation forces and, after > reunification, numerous projects that were all doomed to failure - > probably due to the atmosphere of the place: cold, uninviting, > overpowering and desolate. > > The gallery starts here: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Ruegen/Binz_Prora-0002.jpg.html > > Comments and criticism welcomed > > Cheers > Douglas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information