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My little empire for 10 years in the children home "Egon Schultz" in Rostock (former GDR). From that distance it looks almost cosy - I really don't know how that could happen!
The postcard on the left shows one of my few joys, "der kleine Maulwurf" (the little mole) - a czech cartoon series shown on GDR television. Only many years later I realised that one of the most popular cartoon characters in the GDR was a tunnel digging mole. And mole is also in German a synonym for a spy. :)
Despite China's rapid changes in the last few decades, relics of socialism with Chinese characteristics can still be seen everywhere, such as this monument at Longhua Memorial Park.
Staircase in the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
Shot with the Sony Alpha 7 Mark 2 and the FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS at F=4.
On 1 May 2015, the new Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism opened as a place of education and remembrance documenting and addressing the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and their origins, manifestations and consequences right up to the present day.
As the place where the NSDAP was founded, Munich is associated more than any other German city with the rise of National Socialism. The former ‚Capital of the Movement’ played a pioneering role in the establishment of the Nazi regime of terror and was home to the Nazi party apparatus.
The Documentation Centre has been built on the site of the former ‚Brown House’, once the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). The new construction is designed to be an open and lively forum of information and discussion.
The permanent exhibition documents the history of National Socialism in Munich, the city’s special role in the Nazi system of terror and Munich’s difficulties in confronting its past after 1945. As well as the permanent exhibition, there are also a series of special exhibitions, a learning centre, a varied programme of events and various educational resources.
The central principle underlying the exhibition and the Documentation Centre’s educational concept being to acknowledge, learn about and understand the history of this location. The key questions that the Documentation Centre poses to visitors are: “What does this have to do with me?” and “Why should this still concern me today?”
The initiative to build a Munich Documentation Centre came from committed citizens of Munich. The construction costs, amounting to 28.2 million euros, were shared equally by the City of Munich, the State of Bavaria and the German Federal Government. The State of Bavaria has made the site available, and the City of Munich will bear the operating costs.
Counterpoint at the historical site
In April 2008 the Munich City Council commissioned the department of urban development to advertise a competition for the realisation of a Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. A specification of the competition was to submit an architectural concept which concerned itself with the special historic significance of the site. The building's architecture and the design of the outdoor area were to mark the fundamental break with the site's history and to the former Nazi buildings in the neighbourhood (today's school of music and theatre, for instance).
Visual connection with surrounding topography
The design by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten won the competition. The jury justified its selection of the concept of the Berlin architects from an urban development and design viewpoint as an 'excellent response to the task set with its own unmistakeable identity'. The cube marks the perpetrator site without a reference to the 'Brown House'. The louvered windows enable varied visual connections with the building relics of the Nazi era, so the authentic sites become part of the documentation.
The highest quality of exposed white concrete
In addition to its cubic, compact form the architecture of the new building is strongly determined by the material: the fine, exposed white concrete characterises both the exterior and the interior. The building is in stark contrast with its environment. The facades consist of light, closed surfaces and dark, partly cross-storey window areas.
I have been looking into socialism (Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) for a while. I could never understand why those people did what they did, until now. When I look at the woke-communists of today, I can trace their evil ideology back in history. I now have an understanding of their ideology and use of words. I can look back and see how the people of the past became radicalized by evil. Today, people have become just as radicalized as those of the past. Their life revolves around their fantasy of a communist revolution. If you point out how radicalized they are, they don’t care. They are stone cold.
As a Christian, I knew that global totalitarianism was coming down the pike. However, this is the first time in my life that I truly understand the mindset of the monsters of the past. Evil people are drawn to evil, and they revel in evil. I can see this in many today. The future is going to be a bloody place. The past will repeat itself.
2 Timothy 3-4 “You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.”
Taken during the People's Assembly Against Austerity - a Protest against the Conservative Party and it's annual Conference in Manchester (1st October 2023).
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Manchester on October 1st as the ruling Conservative Party (the Tories) commenced its annual conference in the city. Organized by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, the protest action brought together a broad coalition of activists, trade unions, climate action groups, and anti-war and anti-racism organizations and campaign groups.
“Wages Up, Bills Down, Tories Out,” “Cut War Not Welfare,” “Wages Not Weapons,” and “Defend the Right to Strike” were some of the slogans that were visible among the sea of protesters as they marched through the city. The action was held as part of a national week of action organized by the People’s Assembly in Manchester between September 30 and October 3.
The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT), which has organized successive strikes since last June, (and whose members are going on strike again this week alongside workers from the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, ASLEF), was among the trade unions present at Sunday’s protest. They were joined by the National Education Union (NEU), the Communication Workers Union (CWU), Unison, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, and Unite.
Sunday’s protest was also supported by members of the Stop the War coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Just Stop Oil, the Peace and Justice Project, and the Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) campaign group. Also in attendance was the Young Communist League, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain.
ENG: A visit to the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism" in the documentation center "Topography of Terror" near Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
The Topography of Terror is a project in Berlin that has existed since 1987 to document and deal with terror during the period of National Socialism in Germany, especially during the period of rule from 1933 to 1945.
This picture is not intended to make a political statement, it serves only as a photographic work of art.
GER: Zu Besuch am „Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus“ im Dokumentationszentrum „Topographie des Terrors“ in der nähe des Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
Die Topographie des Terrors ist ein seit 1987 bestehendes Projekt in Berlin zur Dokumentation und Aufarbeitung des Terrors in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland insbesondere während der Herrschaftszeit von 1933 bis 1945.
Dieses Bild soll keine politische Aussage treffen, es dient nur als Fotografisches Kunstwerk.
Thank you Philippe for the texture.
Since Phillippe declined my invitation for a glass of wine
and I'm feeling just fine I seat comfortably in my leather chair,
if I want I can spin it, if I don't...
I feel free, and I cannot put a price on that.
Free to pay my debt, my bills, and maybe if you don't have none of that.
God bless you, say amem on your comments and please answer my philosophical questions.
Do you like Capitalism, I personally love it, but I think that the only thing missing is a Cap. on it, let's say ...
Mine is 5 million, and I will never get there unless you force me to open a Go Fund me and you throw lot's of money on it, please, be my guest and don't be fucking cheap.
I get my 5 mil, them I help another one of my comrades to get theirs, and we pay it forward.
How about that?
Socialism ...
If you are on the top of the food chain, you seat whenever you want, if you don't you work and get paid very little.
They'll give you lot's of education, but you can only learn of they want you too.
Freedom, yea, saw lots of news of people swimming towards our shore.
Will they put a wall there?
Let me stop.
Going nowhere....
MTN.
Today, now, thinking about how the world will be very soon.
Staircase in the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
Shot with the Sony Alpha 7 Mark 2 and the FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS at F=4.
On 1 May 2015, the new Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism opened as a place of education and remembrance documenting and addressing the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and their origins, manifestations and consequences right up to the present day.
As the place where the NSDAP was founded, Munich is associated more than any other German city with the rise of National Socialism. The former ‚Capital of the Movement’ played a pioneering role in the establishment of the Nazi regime of terror and was home to the Nazi party apparatus.
The Documentation Centre has been built on the site of the former ‚Brown House’, once the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). The new construction is designed to be an open and lively forum of information and discussion.
The permanent exhibition documents the history of National Socialism in Munich, the city’s special role in the Nazi system of terror and Munich’s difficulties in confronting its past after 1945. As well as the permanent exhibition, there are also a series of special exhibitions, a learning centre, a varied programme of events and various educational resources.
The central principle underlying the exhibition and the Documentation Centre’s educational concept being to acknowledge, learn about and understand the history of this location. The key questions that the Documentation Centre poses to visitors are: “What does this have to do with me?” and “Why should this still concern me today?”
The initiative to build a Munich Documentation Centre came from committed citizens of Munich. The construction costs, amounting to 28.2 million euros, were shared equally by the City of Munich, the State of Bavaria and the German Federal Government. The State of Bavaria has made the site available, and the City of Munich will bear the operating costs.
Counterpoint at the historical site
In April 2008 the Munich City Council commissioned the department of urban development to advertise a competition for the realisation of a Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. A specification of the competition was to submit an architectural concept which concerned itself with the special historic significance of the site. The building's architecture and the design of the outdoor area were to mark the fundamental break with the site's history and to the former Nazi buildings in the neighbourhood (today's school of music and theatre, for instance).
Visual connection with surrounding topography
The design by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten won the competition. The jury justified its selection of the concept of the Berlin architects from an urban development and design viewpoint as an 'excellent response to the task set with its own unmistakeable identity'. The cube marks the perpetrator site without a reference to the 'Brown House'. The louvered windows enable varied visual connections with the building relics of the Nazi era, so the authentic sites become part of the documentation.
The highest quality of exposed white concrete
In addition to its cubic, compact form the architecture of the new building is strongly determined by the material: the fine, exposed white concrete characterises both the exterior and the interior. The building is in stark contrast with its environment. The facades consist of light, closed surfaces and dark, partly cross-storey window areas.
Narrow gauge locomotive manufactured by the 23 August Works from communist Romania departing Csillebérc station on a snowy and foggy day.
On the side of the renovated station building is a relief reminiscing the Hungarian socialist era, when the Budapest Children's Railway was built.
From my set entitled “Roses”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A rose is a perennial flowering shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. Most are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. [1]
The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plants fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from tiny, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 20 metres in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.
The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).[2][3]
Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, and marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products.
The leaves of most species are 5–15 centimetres long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on the underside of the stem. The vast majority of roses are deciduous, but a few (particularly in Southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.
The flowers of most species roses have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.
The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Rose species that produce open-faced flowers are attractive to pollinating bees and other insects, thus more apt to produce hips. Many of the domestic cultivars are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5–160 "seeds" (technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the Dog Rose (Rosa canina) and Rugosa Rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.
While the sharp objects along a rose stem are commonly called "thorns", they are actually prickles — outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem). True thorns, as produced by e.g. Citrus or Pyracantha, are modified stems, which always originate at a node and which have nodes and internodes along the length of the thorn itself. Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosa and R. pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight spines, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses only have vestigial prickles that have no points.
Roses are popular garden shrubs, as well as the most popular and commonly sold florists' flowers. In addition to their great economic importance as a florists crop, roses are also of great value to the perfume industry.
Many thousands of rose hybrids and cultivars have been bred and selected for garden use; most are double-flowered with many or all of the stamens having mutated into additional petals. As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England.
Twentieth-century rose breeders generally emphasized size and colour, producing large, attractive blooms with little or no scent. Many wild and "old-fashioned" roses, by contrast, have a strong sweet scent.
Roses thrive in temperate climates, though certain species and cultivars can flourish in sub-tropical and even tropical climates, especially when grafted onto appropriate rootstock.
Rose pruning, sometimes regarded as a horticultural art form, is largely dependent on the type of rose to be pruned, the reason for pruning, and the time of year it is at the time of the desired pruning.
Most Old Garden Roses of strict European heritage (albas, damasks, gallicas, etc.) are shrubs that bloom once yearly, in late spring or early summer, on two-year-old (or older) canes. As such, their pruning requirements are quite minimal, and are overall similar to any other analogous shrub, such as lilac or forsythia. Generally, only old, spindly canes should be pruned away, to make room for new canes. One-year-old canes should never be pruned because doing so will remove next year's flower buds. The shrubs can also be pruned back lightly, immediately after the blooms fade, to reduce the overall height or width of the plant. In general, pruning requirements for OGRs are much less laborious and regimented than for Modern hybrids.
Modern hybrids, including the hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, modern miniatures, and English roses, have a complex genetic background that almost always includes China roses (R. chinensis). China roses were evergrowing, everblooming roses from humid subtropical regions that bloomed constantly on any new vegetative growth produced during the growing season. Their modern hybrid descendants exhibit similar habits: Unlike Old Garden Roses, modern hybrids bloom continuously (until stopped by frost) on any new canes produced during the growing season. They therefore require pruning away of any spent flowering stem, in order to divert the plant's energy into producing new growth and thence new flowers.
Additionally, Modern Hybrids planted in cold-winter climates will almost universally require a "hard" annual pruning (reducing all canes to 8"–12" in height) in early spring. Again, because of their complex China rose background, Modern Hybrids are typically not as cold-hardy as European OGRs, and low winter temperatures often desiccate or kill exposed canes. In spring, if left unpruned, these damanged canes will often die back all the way to the shrub's root zone, resulting in a weakened, disfigured plant. The annual "hard" pruning of hybrid teas, floribundas, etc. should generally be done in early spring; most gardeners coincide this pruning with the blooming of forsythia shrubs. Canes should be cut about 1/2" above a vegetative bud (identifiable as a point on a cane where a leaf once grew).
For both Old Garden Roses and Modern Hybrids, any weak, damaged or diseased growth should be pruned away completely, regardless of the time of year. Any pruning of any rose should also be done so that the cut is made at a forty five degree angle above a vegetative bud. This helps the pruned stem callus over more quickly, and also mitigates moisture buildup over the cut, which can lead to disease problems.
For all general rose pruning (including cutting flowers for arrangements), sharp secateurs (hand-held, sickle-bladed pruners) should be used to cut any growth 1/2" or less in diameter. For canes of a thickness greater than 1/2", pole loppers or a small handsaw are generally more effective; secateurs may be damaged or broken in such instances.
Deadheading is the simple practice of manually removing any spent, faded, withered, or discoloured flowers from rose shrubs over the course of the blooming season. The purpose of deadheading is to encourage the plant to focus its energy and resources on forming new offshoots and blooms, rather than in fruit production. Deadheading may also be perfomed, if spent flowers are unsightly, for aethestic purposes. Roses are particularly responsive to deadheading.
Deadheading causes different effects on different varieties of roses. For continual blooming varieties, whether Old Garden roses or more modern hybrid varieties, deadheading allows the rose plant to continue forming new shoots, leaves, and blooms. For "once-blooming" varieties (that bloom only once each season), deadheading has the effect of causing the plant to form new green growth, even though new blooms will not form until the next blooming season.
For most rose gardeners, deadheading is used to refresh the growth of the rose plants to keep the rose plants strong, vibrant, and productive.
The rose has always been valued for its beauty and has a long history of symbolism. The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love referred to as Aphrodite and Venus. In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or "under the rose", means to keep a secret — derived from this ancient Roman practice.
Early Christians identified the five petals of the rose with the five wounds of Christ. Despite this interpretation, their leaders were hesitant to adopt it because of its association with Roman excesses and pagan ritual. The red rose was eventually adopted as a symbol of the blood of the Christian martyrs. Roses also later came to be associated with the Virgin Mary.
Rose culture came into its own in Europe in the 1800s with the introduction of perpetual blooming roses from China. There are currently thousands of varieties of roses developed for bloom shape, size, fragrance and even for lack of prickles.
Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses (including Isis and Aphrodite), and is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary. 'Rose' means pink or red in a variety of languages (such as Romance languages, Greek, and Polish).
The rose is the national flower of England and the United States[4], as well as being the symbol of England Rugby, and of the Rugby Football Union. It is also the provincial flower of Yorkshire and Lancashire in England (the white rose and red rose respectively) and of Alberta (the wild rose), and the state flower of four US states: Iowa and North Dakota (R. arkansana), Georgia (R. laevigata), and New York[5] (Rosa generally). Portland, Oregon counts "City of Roses" among its nicknames, and holds an annual Rose Festival.
Roses are occasionally the basis of design for rose windows, such windows comprising five or ten segments (the five petals and five sepals of a rose) or multiples thereof; however most Gothic rose windows are much more elaborate and were probably based originally on the wheel and other symbolism.
A red rose (often held in a hand) is a symbol of socialism or social democracy; it is also used as a symbol by the British and Irish Labour Parties, as well as by the French, Spanish (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Brazilian, Dutch (Partij van de Arbeid) and European socialist parties. This originated when the red rose was used as a badge by the marchers in the May 1968 street protests in Paris. White Rose was a World War II non violent resistance group in Germany.
Roses are often portrayed by artists. The French artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté produced some of the most detailed paintings of roses.
Henri Fantin-Latour was also a prolific painter of still life, particularly flowers including roses. The Rose 'Fantin-Latour' was named after the artist.
Other impressionists including Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne have paintings of roses among their works.
Rose perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam distilling the crushed petals of roses. The technique originated in Persia (the word Rose itself is from Persian) then spread through Arabia and India, but nowadays about 70% to 80% of production is in the Rose Valley near Kazanluk in Bulgaria, with some production in Qamsar in Iran and Germany.[citation needed]
The Kaaba in Mecca is annually washed by the Iranian rose water from Qamsar. In Bulgaria, Iran and Germany, damask roses (Rosa damascena 'Trigintipetala') are used. In the French rose oil industry Rosa centifolia is used. The oil, pale yellow or yellow-grey in color, is sometimes called 'Rose Absolute' oil to distinguish it from diluted versions. The weight of oil extracted is about one three-thousandth to one six-thousandth of the weight of the flowers; for example, about two thousand flowers are required to produce one gram of oil.
The main constituents of attar of roses are the fragrant alcohols geraniol and l-citronellol; and rose camphor, an odourless paraffin. β-Damascenone is also a significant contributor to the scent.
Quotes
What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet act II, sc. ii
O, my love's like a red, red rose/That's newly sprung in June — Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Mark Twain, Roughing It
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses. — James Oppenheim, "Bread and Roses"
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose — Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily (1913), a poem included in Geography and Plays.
Photo of a painting from the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1921, promoting the dream of a Socialist utopia. An interesting piece of propaganda and art with the exaggerated and clear body lines.
Sarah Palin quotes "Joe the Plumber", whose real name is Sam (I am) , on socialism. Never mind that "JOE" lied about his identity, income, and qualifications as a plumber (or lack thereof). On socialism, he's an authority. The McCain platform is sounding more like McCarthyism with each desperate attempt to scare the US voters into the Republican camp.
On another note, I hope that Obama's grandmother lives long enough to see him become President! For a second term!
Sarah Palin thinks she's talking to French President Sarkozy
Hilarious prank call!
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In addition to his operational role, Liguori chairs Discovery's Content Committee comprised of U.S. Networks general managers with a focus on maximizing the value of the company's marketing resources, network portfolio and overall corporate assets.
Liguori joined Fox / Liberty Networks in 1996 as senior vice president, marketing, for a new joint venture, which now includes Fox Sports Net, FX, Fox Sports World, SPEED and National Geographic Channel. Prior to joining Fox, Liguori was vice president, consumer marketing, at HBO. Prior to HBO, he worked in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi. He is a graduate cum laude of Yale University.
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Staircase in the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
Shot with the Sony Alpha 7 Mark 2 and the Zeiss batis 85/1.8 at F=1.8.
On 1 May 2015, the new Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism opened as a place of education and remembrance documenting and addressing the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and their origins, manifestations and consequences right up to the present day.
As the place where the NSDAP was founded, Munich is associated more than any other German city with the rise of National Socialism. The former ‚Capital of the Movement’ played a pioneering role in the establishment of the Nazi regime of terror and was home to the Nazi party apparatus.
The Documentation Centre has been built on the site of the former ‚Brown House’, once the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). The new construction is designed to be an open and lively forum of information and discussion.
The permanent exhibition documents the history of National Socialism in Munich, the city’s special role in the Nazi system of terror and Munich’s difficulties in confronting its past after 1945. As well as the permanent exhibition, there are also a series of special exhibitions, a learning centre, a varied programme of events and various educational resources.
The central principle underlying the exhibition and the Documentation Centre’s educational concept being to acknowledge, learn about and understand the history of this location. The key questions that the Documentation Centre poses to visitors are: “What does this have to do with me?” and “Why should this still concern me today?”
The initiative to build a Munich Documentation Centre came from committed citizens of Munich. The construction costs, amounting to 28.2 million euros, were shared equally by the City of Munich, the State of Bavaria and the German Federal Government. The State of Bavaria has made the site available, and the City of Munich will bear the operating costs.
Counterpoint at the historical site
In April 2008 the Munich City Council commissioned the department of urban development to advertise a competition for the realisation of a Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. A specification of the competition was to submit an architectural concept which concerned itself with the special historic significance of the site. The building's architecture and the design of the outdoor area were to mark the fundamental break with the site's history and to the former Nazi buildings in the neighbourhood (today's school of music and theatre, for instance).
Visual connection with surrounding topography
The design by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten won the competition. The jury justified its selection of the concept of the Berlin architects from an urban development and design viewpoint as an 'excellent response to the task set with its own unmistakeable identity'. The cube marks the perpetrator site without a reference to the 'Brown House'. The louvered windows enable varied visual connections with the building relics of the Nazi era, so the authentic sites become part of the documentation.
The highest quality of exposed white concrete
In addition to its cubic, compact form the architecture of the new building is strongly determined by the material: the fine, exposed white concrete characterises both the exterior and the interior. The building is in stark contrast with its environment. The facades consist of light, closed surfaces and dark, partly cross-storey window areas.
Socialismo o Muerte, Socialism or Death graffiti on a wall in Bogota City.
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Socialism is a very jealous philosophy. Bill Ayers group the weathermen underground wanted to overthrow the government in the late 60s and 70s. They said that all would have to go along with their way of thinking. They were going to set up re-education camps in the US Southwest. They said they would eliminate all those that did not come around to their way of thinking (socialism/communism). They said they expected they would have to kill about 25,000,000 Americans
FR : Saline royale d'Arc et Senans (25)
Œuvre mythique et inachevée de l'architecte maudit Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1774)
Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO
Cette saline en demi cercle était le premier élément de la cité idéale de Chaux (socialisme utopique) conçue par Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, mais qui ne verra jamais le jour, ce projet royal ayant été abandonné après la Révolution Française de 1789
EN: Royal Saltworks of Arc et Senans (France-Doubs)
Mythical and unfinished work of the cursed architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1774)
UNESCO World Heritage Site
This semi-circular saltworks was the first element of the ideal city of Chaux (utopian socialism) designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, but never built, because the royal project being abandoned, due to French Revolution of 1789.
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Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas, Berlin.
The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, Berlin.
Mémorial aux Roms européens assassinés pendant le nazisme, Berlin.
An old sugar-cane cutter (machetero) drinks rum in front of the apartment block in Bahía, a public housing suburb of Havana, Cuba. The Cuban economic transformation (after the revolution in 1959) has changed the housing status in Cuba from a consumer commodity into a social right. In 1970s, to overcome the serious housing shortage, the Cuban state took over the Soviet Union concept of social housing. Using prefabricated panel factories, donated to Cuba by Soviets, huge public housing complexes have risen in the outskirts of Cuban towns. Although these mass housing settlements provided habitation to many families, they often lack infrastructure, culture, shops, services and well-maintained public spaces. Many local residents have no feeling of belonging and inspite of living on a tropical island, they claim to be “living in Siberia”. © Jan Sochor Photography
The last place I expected to see a 'Jokerbama Socialism' sticker was Boston. Spotted it on Columbus Avenue, already defaced.
Boston, MA / September 6, 2009
A follow-up to yesterday's post: I liked the colourful style of this bloke who seemed to be brokering the "CV's" of many (hopefully) marriageable young adults in Shanghai's People's Square Park marriage market. No matter what the enterprise, a middleman will always find a niche. As Deng Xiao Ping described the economic system: "Socialism with Chinese characteristics"
The “they” in President Truman’s quote are the Republicans. It is no different now, some seventy-one years later. It was also true when women were trying to earn the right to vote.
This entire image is from the Internet. I had no way to find out who created the design or the typography. However, I correctly guessed that the portrait was taken in 1948 by Yousuf Karsh, a world famous photographer.
Laid back and carefree. Street shot in Havana, Cuba.
Please continue to enjoy my "Caliente Cuba" series.
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