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It's interesting when you think how knowing where a location is makes you look a photo differently. Because I knew this was in Germany and from the WWII era, I was put in mind of prisons and concentration camps because of the bars on the structure, whereas had I thought it was somewhere else I would have just assumed it was a normal security precaution. Makes me examine my preconceived biases.
Lynne
Fri 02-27-2009
What bars?
Trey
Sat 02-28-2009
On the walls to either side.
Rekrats
Sat 02-28-2009
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him
pegasus64
Sun 03-01-2009
Looks nice enough to be a wallpaper.
Hallucinator
Sun 03-01-2009
Sad how even today we STILL look at something that could be beautiful with contempt and spilled blood of the past.
Canada
Mon 03-02-2009
Canada...it is a stain that we should never clean or erase. When my mom's first husband came back from WWII (he was a POW) and told people about the death camps...people didn't believe him. They said it was all war propeganda to make people support the war. People told him it was impossible for something like that to be going on. Being a POW in 'Germany left him in such poor health that he died of a massive heart attack in his mid-30's. My uncle used to transport German POW's and they begged not to be returned to Germany, they wanted to stay in U.S. It was a sad time...
pegasus64
Mon 03-02-2009
It's so true I had a three grandfathers in the was one never came home. What angers me is that we still allow bloodshed like the to happen. Places like Uganda and Rwanda... the wold said it would never happen again... and we turn a blind eye to it all.

Sad.... sorry to bring the mood down. Love the pic's but it does bring back the stories of my grandfathers.

He aways told me that he hopes that we may never have to go though the streets of blood and ash like he did....
Canada
Wed 03-04-2009
What a beautiful green site. Bars not, a introduction to what Is about to be, a wedding , a ceremony to be. Nice pic. A lot left to the imagination. Also, it's so nice to see Lynne's comments.
Johnny Mac
Thu 03-05-2009
I just noticed in between the 2 center pillars, it says "Bis Morgen." That translates into until morning. It makes the talk of concentration camps even more sad.
Megan
Sat 04-25-2009
Amazing how this simple photograph could spark such intense, contraversial conversation. A beautiful shot Motts.
Kate
Wed 09-30-2009

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