Eastern Block rideout reports and piccies
- Thread starter Greg Masters
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Sends a shiver down the spine everytime I see that view. Must be on of the few views in the world that never needs a caption to tell you what it is.
Frisky
Guest
Where is it
Give us a clue, where is it???
Cheers Dave
Give us a clue, where is it???
Cheers Dave
CoolCarbon
Guest
Bit Spooky.........seeing a BWM outside that place considering the Historical Connections................
I agree with you there your Lordship, visited Dachau (similar institution) a couple of times..........a Sad Place for sure...........
CC
I agree with you there your Lordship, visited Dachau (similar institution) a couple of times..........a Sad Place for sure...........
CC
Re: Where is it
Dave, if you sincerely do not know then I'm pleased to be able to enlighten you. It is the entrance gateway to Auschwitz extermination camp built by Hitler as part of his final solution. It was built for the sole purpose of committing mass murder of Jews - women, children, men, young and old. It was a purpose built factory for killing and cremation. I suggest you do a search on the net to find out more about the horror that went on there.
On the other hand if you already knew and you were trying to be ironically humerous then personally I don't think a place such as Auschwitz is an appropriate subject for misplaced jokes.
Dave Lowerson said:
Dave, if you sincerely do not know then I'm pleased to be able to enlighten you. It is the entrance gateway to Auschwitz extermination camp built by Hitler as part of his final solution. It was built for the sole purpose of committing mass murder of Jews - women, children, men, young and old. It was a purpose built factory for killing and cremation. I suggest you do a search on the net to find out more about the horror that went on there.
On the other hand if you already knew and you were trying to be ironically humerous then personally I don't think a place such as Auschwitz is an appropriate subject for misplaced jokes.
Madmountainman
Registered user
Re: Re: Where is it
Here here! I know i've posted the odd controversial thread but i most certainly wouldn't try to be humerous about this place.
Lord Snooty said:
Here here! I know i've posted the odd controversial thread but i most certainly wouldn't try to be humerous about this place.
Frisky
Guest
Auswitch
Lord Snooty, I can honestly say I did not recognise the picture.I have never seen that view of the place before.
Obviosly i would not place a "cheap" remark like I did had I known.
Hope no one was offended, but I really did not know where it was.
Cheers Dave
Lord Snooty, I can honestly say I did not recognise the picture.I have never seen that view of the place before.
Obviosly i would not place a "cheap" remark like I did had I known.
Hope no one was offended, but I really did not know where it was.
Cheers Dave
Re: Re: Re: Re: Where is it
and drank a little vodka too
Greg Masters said:Quite rightly so!
But we also visited a few other places .... Colditz Castle for example ...
and drank a little vodka too
So much so the final destination - but the devil was in the detail. The sheer size of the camp behind that building beggared belief. If you went to the top floor it stretched a km or so to the left and km to the right. And in front - the other side - lay a km or so to the gas chambers and crematorium.
I paced it out - the passengers on the train disembarked and had a 20 min walk to the changing rooms where they took their clothes off before their 'shower' after the long journey.
We took ages to get 'flow control' in our post offices - the Nazis had perfected it for killing thousands of people per day.
So many memories which were difficult to comprehend.
I paced it out - the passengers on the train disembarked and had a 20 min walk to the changing rooms where they took their clothes off before their 'shower' after the long journey.
We took ages to get 'flow control' in our post offices - the Nazis had perfected it for killing thousands of people per day.
So many memories which were difficult to comprehend.
I agree with Mark totally .
details like one tap for drinking and washing shared between 12000 women .
details like one tap for drinking and washing shared between 12000 women .
Jim McSharry
Guest
Several memories I will share:
One guard reckons he alone executed 24,000 people.
HOSS - the Camp Commandant - was taken back there by the Poles and hanged just outside one of the gas chambers.
1.5 million people murdered here.
So much you can write about it but not yet.
One guard reckons he alone executed 24,000 people.
HOSS - the Camp Commandant - was taken back there by the Poles and hanged just outside one of the gas chambers.
1.5 million people murdered here.
So much you can write about it but not yet.
On a more serious note, I think that everyone should at sometime in their lives visit Auschwitz and Birkenau. It is a totally humbling experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life..
I'm sure i'm speaking for everybody that who participated when i say a big thanks to Greg Masters for sorting it all out.
I'm sure i'm speaking for everybody that who participated when i say a big thanks to Greg Masters for sorting it all out.
Pthagonal
Guest
Re: Eastern Bloc Raid
my g/f just asked was that real.. re the pic!!!!!
excuse me while i go extract her foot from her mouth..
shes trying to excuse herself by saying that she didnt really see it first time around..
pthag
Bryn said:
my g/f just asked was that real.. re the pic!!!!!
excuse me while i go extract her foot from her mouth..
shes trying to excuse herself by saying that she didnt really see it first time around..
pthag
Of course its real... once he takes the elastic band off it goes back to its normal colour....
Jim McSharry
Guest
Oh dear, I'm gonna be in trouble for that!
I'll leave it for someone else to explain
God knows what Pamela will say about the one that's to come of the blond waving us off from Poland
Not long in - Dover to home in good time. If a brown envelope doesn't appear in the next 14 days I'm gonna complain to the Ministry!
2,960 miles - been trying to explain the highlights to SWMBO and Co. but too many!
Here's a few:
Greg Masters - perhaps the 'master' of GPS - absolutely fantastic lead-rider!
Storks in huge nests on top of telegraph poles
Lots of people stopping and waving at the group as we passed through villages - one old man running up his path to wave while his Mrs ran off down the path!
Old men and women in Poland dragging/pushing ploughs and seed drills without an 'oss!
The Polish soldier getting caught with his pants down as we swept through his border crossing only to be bailed out by his Czeck counterparts and getting turned back - so much for the EU!
Coming to a similar border crossing an hour later with no one about and hoofing it through - would have been locked up not too long ago!
Loads of piccies to come boys and girls - best parties are the ones you missed!
Cheers Greg - you were 'the man!'
Thanks to everyone else for making it a time to remember.
(Only took a 35mm camera so looking forward with eager anticipation to the rest of the pics )
I'll leave it for someone else to explain
God knows what Pamela will say about the one that's to come of the blond waving us off from Poland
Not long in - Dover to home in good time. If a brown envelope doesn't appear in the next 14 days I'm gonna complain to the Ministry!
2,960 miles - been trying to explain the highlights to SWMBO and Co. but too many!
Here's a few:
Greg Masters - perhaps the 'master' of GPS - absolutely fantastic lead-rider!
Storks in huge nests on top of telegraph poles
Lots of people stopping and waving at the group as we passed through villages - one old man running up his path to wave while his Mrs ran off down the path!
Old men and women in Poland dragging/pushing ploughs and seed drills without an 'oss!
The Polish soldier getting caught with his pants down as we swept through his border crossing only to be bailed out by his Czeck counterparts and getting turned back - so much for the EU!
Coming to a similar border crossing an hour later with no one about and hoofing it through - would have been locked up not too long ago!
Loads of piccies to come boys and girls - best parties are the ones you missed!
Cheers Greg - you were 'the man!'
Thanks to everyone else for making it a time to remember.
(Only took a 35mm camera so looking forward with eager anticipation to the rest of the pics
)
I'm sure i'm speaking for everybody that who participated when i say a big thanks to Greg Masters for sorting it all out. [/B][/QUOTE]
could'nt of put it better myself . what a stirling chap Greg is .
could'nt of put it better myself . what a stirling chap Greg is .
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