Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
The exposition was dominated by the monster pavilions, facing off against each other, of Nazi Germany (left) and the Soviet Union (right).
Picture taken from the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro). When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
It's, alas, not a new thing... "Houses are built to live in and not to look on." Essays, 45-Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Those have a look of underexposed Ektachromes. I must find some time to go to the gallery show... "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Those have a look of underexposed Ektachromes.
I could have made the colors more natural with photoshop, but I thought I should present them as exhibited. Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
I could have made the colors more natural with photoshop, but I thought I should present them as exhibited.
The trouble in typing slowly is that the answers are already there when you manage to post !!! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
I was just wondering what sort of film one could get in Paris in 1944... I would think it to be Agfacolor and the blue being a restoration density artefact ! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
While B&W chemicals were easy to find, color negatives or slides would have been quite a problem to get right in those times (unless you belonged to some propaganda staff or military photographer)!
Just musing around ! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Following the pavilion face-off at the Paris Expo higher upthread, here we have the face-off in the posters during the war in, apparently, Nice (see above hoarding).
On the left, the Nazis were of course fighting terra. The Reds were guilty of Katyn, Vinnitza (I don't know what happened there except it's a Ukrainian town that was nastily visited by the SS Einsatzgruppen...), and the Haute Savoie (as margouillat notes), probably because of maquis activity.
What is the adjectif after "TERRORISME" that is hidden by the passer-by? Sibérien? ???
To the right, we have the good guys who are out in the snow fighting terra: the F that is visible is the end of LVF, the Légion des Volontaires Français, a French Kollabo volunteer unit that fought on the Eastern front. There were not many volunteers. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
One location during Stalin's Great Terror, exhumed and propagandised by the SS while they filled their own mass graves nearby. Read it here. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
I never fail to be surprised by how sensitive the Nazis were to "atrocity propaganda". That is, they flogged it for all it was worth against the Soviets, but also claimed Jewish complaints about bad treatment before the war were invented. What I'm thinking is that they were aware of the damage it could cause to others and to them if massacres and atrocities were publicised, yet the Allies (West™) always fought shy of using their knowledge of Nazi atrocities (of organised mass murder by the end of 1942) and never fully used it as a propaganda weapon. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
I'd seen the same poster in a different setting. It calls on good Germans to fight die jüdische Creuelpropaganda by buying in German (non-Jewish) shops. A good German lady looks on. The photo tells the story of what good Germans should be doing, etc -- addressed ostensibly, therefore, to a German public.
Er, but what's wrong with that analysis?
Why is the message translated into English?
For which public is the photo (and others like it) really intended? I'd say British and particularly American. The keywords are "Jewish atrocity propaganda". There had been false atrocity propaganda during WWI, and the Nazis were cashing in on it by suggesting Jewish claims of mistreatment were bogus. Muddying the waters... When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
The english part of the picture is indeed surprising ! The fact that it isn't in french too, would aim more at the US then at UK (as after all the french were supposed to be "ze" great military power in the neighborhood)? "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Belle Epoque and bloody epoch:
Montaubon - history pageant - the Revolution. It's also the birthplace of Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leader of the May 68 demonstrators:
Montaubon
In 1360, at the Treaty of Brétigny, it was ceded to the English; they were expelled by the inhabitants in 1414. [muttering: "We'll be back - wait till the UK house price inflation".] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauban
In 1360, at the Treaty of Brétigny, it was ceded to the English; they were expelled by the inhabitants in 1414. [muttering: "We'll be back - wait till the UK house price inflation".]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauban
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice. Blog - Nice Experience
Memorial plaque, Berlin
DDR monument, Berlin
Early Benz invention, Stuttgart
From inside the Deutscher Dome, Berlin
Painting from the Alte Deutsche Kunst Museum
Windmill, Potsdam
From the Pergamon, Berlin
Soviet space suit, ESA Astronaut Training Center
He's not an object but he's historic! My grandfather...
No, that's the Soviet War Memorial, built by the Soviets themselves, which pre-dates the formation of East Germany (DDR) by four years.
Some might find it might interesting that there is one in Wienna, too, there called Soviet Heroes' Monument, and it's well-maintained. (Where the cruel irony is that many of those 'heroes' have, after the express approval of their generals, committed the two biggest rampages of mass rape after the taking of just these two cities.)
*Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
Temple of the Inscriptions - Pelenque
Tomb of King Pakal the Great within the Temple of the Inscriptions
I believe this imposing structure is named "The Palace"
Some other structures at Pelenque
Largest pyramid at Comalcalco, western limit of the Mayan civilization. Constructed of mud bricks. I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
As I told last time you posted it, it was damn familiar for me. Of course it was -- I was there!
But it is not in Italy. Just North of it: Brig, Switzerland, the Stockalper Castle and the College Church, with the Riederhorn in the background:
Webcam with the Stockalper Castle:
I had a suspicion about Switzerland, because those special arm-rests for wooden seats are a 'luxury' I'd expect only there, and indeed now I found a picture of a former SBB 3rd class wooden interior:
So if the inscription above the door is "Don't smoke" in Italian, Fran was right, and this was somewhere in the Italian part of Switzerland at the end of WWII. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
BTW, another modern picture of Brig with a better (but still valley-bottom) view of the church to the right of the castle:
So if you have historical family photos and someone who remembers who is in them and what the occasion was, do write it down! One day you'll probably want to know; it's family history... You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
The trouble is that sometimes the "who" doesn't even ring a bell to the matriarch (95 years old mother)... Who jokingly evacuates the problem by saying it must have been her/his lover/mistress... Which usually sends a chilling return glance from that part of the family :-)
Those were the times... :-) "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
My maternal grandparents. My grandfather died in Belgium during WWI, my grandmother in the flu pandemic of 1918 which caused the death of 50 million people. You can't be me, I'm taken
It's a big year for birthdays in our family - my gran, 100; my dad, 70; my sister, 45; me, 30. Ad astra per aspera
