Posts Tagged ‘GDR’
Memorial to the Victims of Fascism, Potsdam, DDR
Saturday, July 4th, 2020Fragile
Saturday, January 19th, 2019
Bornholmer Brücke
Friday, November 9th, 2018
The Window of Remembrance
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Günter Max Brock
Friday, November 10th, 2017
Fragile
Sunday, February 19th, 2017
Dresden, DDR
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016..October 2016.. ..Dresden..
One of the few remaining sculptures made in the DDR times. Most of the signs of the DDR are found on the quiet back streets of Johannstadt, away from the city center where the tourists flock to see the baroque heart of Dresden.
Dresden, DDR
Saturday, October 15th, 2016..October 2016.. ..Dresden..
It’s abandoned…
It’s forgotten…
Sculpture made in the East German times sit lonely on the outskirts of the Dresden Neumarkt.
The Window of Remembrance
Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Jens Karney
Friday, September 16th, 2016
“In the fall of 1982, six months after I arrived in Berlin, I started to have doubts about my job. Most importantly I felt we were engaging in certain activities to achieve specific intelligence goals without regard to the risk, no matter if it cost lives or pushed us closer to nuclear war. I felt we were sacrificing our morality for an end result. In the media we were presented with distorted statistics that gave the impression that the West was doomed and that we would be overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers in the event of war. But it was never mentioned that those statistics were often negated by Western technology. ”
-Jens Karney
Jens Karney, code-named “Kid,” was one of a pair of agents the Stasi had used to infiltrate the US military in West Berlin during the 1980’s. American authorities estimated the damage that he had caused by betraying secrets at $14.5 billion.