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(Photograph taken in 1992)
The large gate with the two white towers is the bridge gate from the Middle Ages, which was once part of Heidelberg’s city wall. The current bridge that spans the Neckar River was built in 1788. The bridge was damaged in World War II and was rebuilt. Heidelberg Castle, much of it in ruins, of can be seen in background of the photograph on the hillside.
The Cowra Breakout and Cowra Japanese Garden. George Evans pushed through this area on his way to the Lachlan River in 1815. The first white settlers moved into the Lachlan River valley in the mid-1830s and Cowra can trace its origins back to 1840. The town grew and today is the thriving centre of a horticultural region which produces fruit, wine, cereals and wool. During World War Two a prisoner of war camp for captured Japanese was established outside the town. All went well until in 1944 when 1,000 Japanese prisoners broke out of the camp. It was the biggest POW breakout in British and Australian history. The Cowra camp started in 1941 for Italian POWs. By 1944 the 2,000 Italians were joined by over 1,000 Japanese and the camp was terribly overcrowded. Over 1,100 men attempted to escape on 5 August. 234 Japanese and 5 Australians were killed. 108 Japanese men were wounded and another 331 escaped for up to nine days. News of the outbreak was suppressed and the death toll was not released until 1949. The POW site is now on the register of the National Estate. In SA we had a similar camp at Loveday outside Barmera. At the Visitors Centre we will see a short hologram presentation on the breakout. It is unique and a delightful way to personalise this dramatic story.
This massacre led to closer ties between Cowra and Japan after the War. In 1964 the Japanese government established the first and only Japanese War Cemetery in the world at Cowra on land ceded to Japan. (All other Japanese soldier remains have been returned home to Japan). 523 Japanese soldiers are buried here mainly airmen shot down over Darwin and the NT during the war and 231 Japanese POWs from the Cowra Breakout. There is a small Japanese shrine here. In 1979 a famous Japanese garden designer created the Cowra Japanese garden across ten acres. The designer wanted the garden to be a symbol of goodwill and peace, whilst representing the varying landscapes of Japan- rivers, lakes, hills and Mt Fuji itself. It includes a Tea House, a Bonsai House and a pottery room. The café here serves Australian and Japanese food and sells Japanese souvenirs. Later in 1991 Cowra planted its Cherry Tree Avenue which leads from the town to the POW camp site. At the camp site there is a memorial to the Italians who were imprisoned there during world War Two. In 1992 Cowra received the Peace Bell which is a replica of the one that hangs at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Peace Bell commemorates Cowra’s work in international peace. Among the heritage buildings of Cowra are: the Catholic Church in the Main Street. Built in 1938/39 in the inter war Romanesque style to a design by architects Scott & Green & Scott. Behind it is the 1861 Catholic church incorporated into the convent; on the next corner (Macquarie St) is the Presbyterian Church built in 1911 with the 1861 church behind it; Cowra Courthouse built in 1880 is heritage listed; the Reid Smith department store was built in 1924.
Across the road from the ruins of the men's camp lies the entrance to the camp for women and Soviet POWs. Guarded by watchtowers and miles of electrified fence, these camps contain the original brick barracks which were built before the Nazis needed to rush construction to increase capacity.
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Hasselblad 500 C/M
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 CT
Portra 160
Imposing guard tower at the abandoned prison complex.
In 1936 there were six of these guard towers in various locations around Alcatraz. This is the Dock Tower, the only one that's still standing. The officers who manned these towers were armed with both rifles and handguns. All the towers were equipped with spotlights to aid in night time operations. As an additional security precaution, the correctional officers on duty were locked in the towers. Working on "The Rock" doesn't seem like it was a very pleasant job.
Roman guard tower in Köln, Germany.
Shortly after the promotion of the Roman garrison Ara Ubierum to a colonia around 50 AD, a town wall was constructed to protect Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. The wall featured nine gates and nineteen towers, the later of which followed a standardised design.
Today, this remaining tower in the north-west of the ancient town is the best preserved trace of this fortification. An interesting feature added at a later stage is its decorated exterior achieved by the combination of differently coloured building materials. While the Roman empire ended, the walls remained and provided protection to the city untill the 10th century, when the city limits were extended an new walls constructed. From 1306-1802, the tower was part of St. Clare's monastery where it housed the latrine.
Taken at Morro Beach, CA. The tower is hiding most of Morro Rock in the background as a flock of pelicans head North. I still have texture fever and feel that it looks better on a sepia toned image than on a normal color image. Well, that's just my personal take.
Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division on April 29, 1945, seventy-one years ago today. Source: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dachau-liberated
The motto wrought into the gate was seen by every new arrival at the camp. In English it means "work makes free," or "work makes one free."
Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi regime in 1933. It was situated in the medieval town of Dachau, near Munich (München) in the province of Bavaria (Bayern).
Photographed during the winter of 1978 with a Yaschica 35mm rangefinder camera using Kodak Tri-X ISO 400 film.
After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp for Polish political prisoners.[4] The first inmates, German criminals brought to the camp in May 1940 as functionaries, established the camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial reasons. The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941.
Auschwitz I, Oswiecim, Poland
Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. I couldn't resist taking a picture of this swan with the reflection of the Imperial Palace guard tower.
(Oświęcim, Poland)
Camp fence and guard tower: the typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
At the end of 1943, guard towers were replaced by new ones, fully walled and fitted with windows. Construction was completed in the spring of 1944.
An abandoned American missile base in southern Boiotia, probably for the nuclear Nike missile systems
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." - Theodore Roosevelt
The Soberanes Fire burned brightly in the night sky that it could be seen near the abandon jail in Monterey county.
Each time I walk past the abandoned Lorton prison in Lorton, Virginia, I always think of The Walking Dead TV show and imagine zombies are nearby. Then I realize I'm outside of the compound...with the zombies. HAHA!
Abandoned Lorton Prison
iPhone 5
Lorton, VA USA
October 2013
During 14th century Castle Přimda became a centre of about 15 surrounding villages. Their residents were obliged to guard the nearby borders. Castle was also centre of local medieval organizational and ownership system. Its hereditary owners served as soldiers in times of need for the castle. As Přimda stood on one of the lines of important Nürnberg trade route, they also collected taxes there.
Oświęcim, Poland |
Camp fence and guard tower: the typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
At the end of 1943, guard towers were replaced by new ones, fully walled and fitted with windows. Construction was completed in the spring of 1944.
One of the guard towers at Eastern State Penitentiary.
When it was built, Eastern State Penitentiary was a state of the art facility, at least in part because it was dedicated to rehabilitation rather than simply punishment or retribution (‘penitentiary’ derived from the word ‘penitent’). It is a prime example of the Separate System (or the Pennsylvania System) in which prisoners were held in individual cells, forbidden to speak to each other or the guards and only allowed outside for two 30-minute breaks per day in individual exercise yards. Their time spent in silent, solitary contemplation was supposed to aid in their rehabilitation.
It's easy to let your imagination run wild while visiting a site like Dachau almost 70 years after the atrocities took place. While looking at this particular trench along the perimeter fence - which by the way is only steps from the Krematorium - my mind wondered how many were executed as they purposefully ended their life on their terms by running towards the fence.
From the Dachau informational sign:
Built from 1937-38, the newly erected prison camp was surrounded by a perimeter fence designed to make escape impossible. SS soldiers kept watch over the camp from seven watchtowers. The instant a prisoner entered a prohibited zone, they were fired upon. Some prisoners ran into the border strip on purpose to put and end to their suffering.
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Date: c. 1924
Object number: A.2009-29
Medium: paper; photo-emulsion
Description: The Post Office Department operated the nation's first regularly scheduled airmail service. North Platte, Nebraska, was one of the stops along the service's transcontinental flyway. The flyway connected New York City, New York to San Francisco, California through Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Iowa City, Iowa; Omaha and North Platte, Nebraska;, Cheyenne, Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyoming; , Salt Lake City, Utah; and Elko and Reno, Nevada. The Department began using the North Platte airmail field on September 8, 1920. An airmail beacon stands to the left of the hangar and a truck marked "US Air Mail" is parked in front of the hanger. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown
Place: United States of America
Nebraska
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Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection
Photographer: Unknown
Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207527
Repository:National Postal Museum
This is an entry into the CCCIX Bandit's Raid Category and part 4 of my CCCIX storyline:
The Flames Of Fury
The Bear Claw Clan has been unleashed, and they are tearing through the countryside. After overunning a Dragon Knight guardtower, they flowed into the town with like a wall of fury.
The King's orders were clear: destroy everything in your path. Just the kind of orders the Clan loves to hear!
If you missed them, here are the earlier chapter:
Enjoy!
The barbed wire fence was electrified, the deep ditch was filled with water, and the guards in the towers were armed with machine guns -- all to keep anyone from escaping. At this point we were leaving the barracks for the crematorium area.
Oświęcim, Poland |
Camp buildings: Germans adapted for the future camp twenty brick buildings of the former Polish Army barracks. 8 new blocks were added and the work reached completion in the first half of 1942.
The blocks were designed to hold about 700 prisoners each, but in practice they housed up to 1,200.
Camp fence and guard tower: the typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
At the end of 1943, guard towers were replaced by new ones, fully walled and fitted with windows. Construction was completed in the spring of 1944.
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Stretching from Shanhaiguan, by the Yellow Sea, to Jaiyuguan, in the Gobi Desert, the Great Wall (长城) is one of the world's most astonishing feats of engineering. The practise of building walls to protect China's northern frontier, began in the 5th century BC and lasted until the 16th century, with the most famous wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. The wall was built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China, in part to protect the Chinese Empire from various nomadic groups or military incursions from Mongol tribes. Over time this discontinuous array of fortifications and ramparts were joined up to form the Wan Li Changcheng (The Wall of Ten Thousand Li), or the "Great Wall" to Western Speakers,
Joliet Prison
Joliet, Illinois 41.546313, -88.072798
February 4, 2024
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Oświęcim, Poland |
Camp buildings: Germans adapted for the future camp twenty brick buildings of the former Polish Army barracks. 8 new blocks were added and the work reached completion in the first half of 1942.
The blocks were designed to hold about 700 prisoners each, but in practice they housed up to 1,200.
Camp fence and guard tower: the typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
At the end of 1943, guard towers were replaced by new ones, fully walled and fitted with windows. Construction was completed in the spring of 1944.
I spent most of the day shooting at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. It is a prime example of urban decay. It was built in 1829 and operated as a prison until 1971. It is now a registered US Historic Landmark. It's open to the public for tours and has activity to restore parts of the facility. I spent about 5 hours in the prison today shooting exposures for HDR processing.
Check it out in the light box or on black. :^)
Sunrise on the seventh day of our heat wave, yesterday we had a top of 42c, they say we will finally have relief from all this heat this afternoon, I hope so, I can only spend so much time in the water before I turn into a prune.
Los Alamos, New Mexico was the place where the first atomic bombs were made in World War 2.
The existence of the entire town was kept secret from the rest of the country and it was surrounded by armed guards and fences.
It's existence, together with the thousands of people who lived there was only revealed in 1945 after the bombs had been used on Japan.
Not until 1957 were the barriers and guards removed and the town opened to outsiders. Very little of the original barriers are left but this guard tower was located at the main gate. Now you can drive past without stopping.
There is now a separate secure area, away from the town, where atomic research and other science is carried out. You are not allowed to go there!
Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division on April 29, 1945, seventy-one years ago today. Source: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dachau-liberated
Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi regime in 1933. It was situated in a medieval town in the province of Bavaria.
Photographed during the winter of 1978 with a Yaschica 35mm rangefinder camera using Kodak Tri-X ISO 400 film.
Brzezinka, Poland |
Camp fence and guard tower: unlike the Auschwitz I camp which was surrounded by two rows of barbed wire fence, the Birkenau camp had only one line and a ditch full of water inside the camp. The typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
In the background, the women's camp.