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Rita Crane Photography: Old Town, Halberstadt

This is part of the Set about Halberstadt, my father's home town: www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/sets/72157600287407882...

 

 

A glimpse of my father the LIFE photographer Ralph Crane's home town. See description of this town in former East Germany here:

www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/288478557/

 

The sky over Halberstadt has seen a lot of changes in just a few years: Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Soviet occupation, and now reunification. This is on the outskirts of the Old Town, and the sign is out in front of a village pub. Early morning, and no one was up yet.

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Uploaded on November 4, 2006
Taken on March 23, 2004