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Pillars

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You can see the façade that fell from the ceiling clearly now from the scar in the upper right hand of the photo. It’s not the exterior that is rotting away, it’s the interior.

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top

Crumble

Suasponta

Wow! What color! Big wooden widow frame that fell from the heavens, perhaps ?

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Vault

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It looks so European. It’s a testament of American ancestry. Motts, I love the hall the shots. Nice depth. Was it as massive as the photo’s perspective?

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Terminal

Suasponta

Also, Constintina wire on the fence top,. Nice touch.

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Heavy

Suasponta

I’ve seen a hole like that in a door before. I think the Raccoon’s might have broken through or, it could be Skunks.

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Labyrinth

Suasponta

Mr. Mott. is that reflection of pipes on the water from the ceiling or, pipes just under the water line?

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Labyrinth

Suasponta

What No Smoking?! This is a perfect place for a smoke!

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Terminal

Suasponta

Motts, love the Marquee photo. Awesome early 20th century architecture and, has my bro’s name spray painted on a big piece of plywood and tacked to a chain link fence. This could very well be his Xmas gift….. Rock on.

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End

Suasponta

Mr. Motts, I personally think a documentary would be much better then a book.

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On Duty

Suasponta

Man, seeing that 10 lb. typewriter LucieLou makes me apperciate my Blackberry so much more!

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Mutter Und Kind

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Terrifiying, yet life goes on. She is covered in clothing pretty much from head to toe like a hazmat suit.

Most people probably think that after WWI most nations agreed never to use chemical weapons again against another. This is not true. Both the USA and Great Britain planned and meant to use gas during WWII. Germany as a consequence of the Versailles dictate of 1919, was forbidden to produce and import any kind of gas or liquids that could be used to produce such gasses, Article 171.
The Reich kept strictly to the requirement of the Versailles dictate regarding chemical warfare equipment. Even the Weimar Republic kept to the dictate. During the Sea Disarmament Conference, 1921/22, in Washington, the following nations did not agree to gas or any chemical weapons being dangerous weapons: USA, England, France, Japan and Italy. The use of chemical weapons were discussed, but without an agreement being signed.

In June 1925 in Geneva the question was once again discussed, one reached the so-called Geneva Gas-War Protocol. Out of the 44 nations attending the Geneva conference 38 had, by the end of 1935, signed the protocol. 21 nations took reservation, 17 were reluctant. By the end of 1935, 28 nations had ratified the convention. But 10 refused, among those were USA, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Luxemburg, and various nations in South America. The Reich signed without any reservations.

However, this did not stop the Nazi's from using carbon monoxide and cyclone- B to kill Jews and other prisoners, even their own people.

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Gefallenen Kameraden

Suasponta

They look like a small child's casket, too me, thus my first comment. I wonder what the morbidity rate was the last few months of the war, here in the bunker. Given the stifling conditions and the and dwindling medical supplies It must have been high especially among the young and old.

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Number Eight

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Looks like a bin of potential tetanus. You ask why? Because C. tetani is an anaerobic bacterium, it and its endospores survive well in an environment that lacks oxygen. Hence, stepping on a nail (rusty or not) may result in a tetanus infection, as the low-oxygen (anaerobic) environment is provided by the same object which causes a puncture wound, delivering endospores to a suitable environment for growth.

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All Packed

Suasponta

Quiet! no way! can you image it crammed full of snoring adults and crying babies! Plus figure in the echo factor. I'm sure it was a cacophony of noise.

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Nazi Games

Suasponta

Not surprising from a government that dictated every facet of German society. What was acceptable and what was not. I guess this game is kind of appropriate for a bomb shelter. I wonder what the Jews Out game was like! Probably very popular game with the SS and Gastapo families.

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End

Suasponta

Ok, The college as a whole is pretty impressive. Add more nudity and it would have fit right into my barrecks.

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And More

Suasponta

cool! I wonder what the text says.

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Collage Work

Suasponta

This looks like something a solder would do to his barrack room wall. Given the chance and getting a hold of some crappy American magazines. Boy, if those Russian solders could have seen my barrack room's wall collage! This one pales in comparison!

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Drawings

Suasponta

Appears to be the same face,

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Oven

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Russian Pizzia Oven?

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Gefallenen Kameraden

Suasponta

And Children's Coffins.

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Pulled the Plug

Suasponta

From the water mark on the wall , a heck of a lot of it was pump out or, floods in periodically.

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The Box

Suasponta

Looks like small explosive damage on the cement sides of the entrance used to remove a heavy door. Bullet holes appear to be in the wall around it, like machine gun spray. Can only imagine the carnage that surly must have happen in these bunkers when the Russians came upon it, filled with a mixture of civilians, emergency crews, and solders

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Dark Waters

Suasponta

Toxic Green how appropriate. Looks like it slide shut.

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Lambs

Suasponta

Extensive indeed. Stalagmites are forming. Lamps to the slaughter?

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