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At a crêche in Paris

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A local hostelry.  M7, 5cm Summicron Collapsible, Acros 100.

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A pair from my last trip to Bodie, Ca.

 

Leica SL / 24-90 V.E., on RRS tripod & BH-55 ballhead

 

Image #1: Methodist church of Bodie

 

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Image #2: Bodie schoolhouse

 

same equipment,

 

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the trunk


 


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OK, you could argue that images should always speak for themselves, well these do not, really.

 

This is a picture of a very ordinary field in Germany. Or is it?

 

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On the outskirts of the small agricultural and wine-growing village of Bretzenheim in southwestern Germany, a POW-camp  was established by the allies in 1945 for the internment of German soldiers captured elsewhere during the war. Up to 100.000 men and women were kept at PWTE A-6 (the stretch of open fields up to the vineyard hills in the background), initially under open sky, without tents or facilities whatsoever. Locally, this site is known as "field of lamentation".

 

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In 1966, in keeping with the sentiment of that time, a memorial was erected to commemorate the suffering „of all German soldiers that have died in captivity“, tactfully omitting any mention of the fact that a significant proportion of the interns had been members of the SS, being interrogated for potential war crimes. This and other balanced information is provided by the current information panel on-site. Nevertheless, several thousand men and women died on these fields of starvation and lack of medical attention, in peacetime. History is complex.
 

Important disclaimer: This text is meant to give background information on these images. This text is not meant in any way as an attempt at historic revisionism, relativism or exculpation. Human suffering is universal. Yet the terrible guilt incurred by the German people (and maybe even by my late grandfather about whose wartime assignments I know nothing) is beyond comparison, beyond redemption and beyond comprehension.  I have been to Yad Vashem. I could have cried for desolation and shame. I did. I am not proud to be a heir to those responsible. My own father was five years old when the war ended. As I said, history is complex. I am totally humbled and utterly grateful to be a member of the propably first generation in western European history, that grew up to the age of 50+ without first-hand experience of war. There may be much more pertinent incentives for rememberance, but this one is just around the corner from the city I live in.

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Thanks for your b&w images with your everything else as b&w story under it.

+1. It's history, nobody should be proud of this sort of history, but it happened. Hopefully we will have learnt.

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Vertigo.

(Leaning over the glass banister, stairwell, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris)

 

 

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Path above the (soggy) fields. M9 & 21SEM.

 

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