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Berlin Diary
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The end of yet another adventure of the heroine Barbara Moore.
Another great story written by Barbaria.
Congratulations on this story, Barbaria.
If you remember I posted in this story two sets of pictures, from Berlin in 1936.
Http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/berlin-diary.5726/page-11
# 217 and # 218.
These photos have a real story, which has some thing in common with Barbara Moore.
About 7 years ago I received an email from a friend, which contained some pictures of Nazi Germany, (these photos were in the slide format that opens automatically and with musical background).
I could not post these photos in the original format. A friend taught me how to transform into jpeg, so now I'm going to post all the photos in the sequence I received.
Part - 01
The photos were taken by a Life Magazine photographer between 1939 and 1940 in Berlin and were missing for more than 50 years, as this American photographer disappeared early in the conflict along with his Rolleiflex camera and these original slides At the time for reproduction in magazines) mostly 6 x 9 inches (see the details of the original frames of the cards). "These cards were found by a German nurse at a Berlin hospital who kept them all these years. After his death, his daughter found them and returned them to the current American publisher who has the rights to the Life Magazine brand, which is no longer published since the early 1970s.? Interestingly, the Beetle in 1939, a fantastic technological breakthrough at the time.
Top-Cat
Another great story written by Barbaria.
Congratulations on this story, Barbaria.
If you remember I posted in this story two sets of pictures, from Berlin in 1936.
Http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/berlin-diary.5726/page-11
# 217 and # 218.
These photos have a real story, which has some thing in common with Barbara Moore.
About 7 years ago I received an email from a friend, which contained some pictures of Nazi Germany, (these photos were in the slide format that opens automatically and with musical background).
I could not post these photos in the original format. A friend taught me how to transform into jpeg, so now I'm going to post all the photos in the sequence I received.
Part - 01
The photos were taken by a Life Magazine photographer between 1939 and 1940 in Berlin and were missing for more than 50 years, as this American photographer disappeared early in the conflict along with his Rolleiflex camera and these original slides At the time for reproduction in magazines) mostly 6 x 9 inches (see the details of the original frames of the cards). "These cards were found by a German nurse at a Berlin hospital who kept them all these years. After his death, his daughter found them and returned them to the current American publisher who has the rights to the Life Magazine brand, which is no longer published since the early 1970s.? Interestingly, the Beetle in 1939, a fantastic technological breakthrough at the time. Top-Cat
Wow TC, you always find the most fascinating pictures! These are amazing!
messaline
Crucified Amazon
Yes, of course but it's a pity that many technological breakthroughs are too often devoted to war !
Bobinder
Those words coming from an artist of his level, only gratify my work.
Thank you very much
Top-Cat
Hondoboot2
QUAESTOR PULCHRITUDINIS
What a great post Top-Cat, these images are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Very true, and the VW car was so employed by the Wehrmacht. But I think it is close to TC's affections because the last VW Beetles were built in Brazil? He probably owns one?Yes, of course but it's a pity that many technological breakthroughs are too often devoted to war !
Encore tu as raison, Messa! When I think of the lovely Citroen Onze and Quinze Legere, I am reminded how fond the Gestapo were of them too!Oh, I dont criticize TC !
Many French enterprises had suffisciently worked for war too !
It's general since that the human-body is appeared on this hearth !!!
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Bobinder
Yes, you are right, VW and "Fusca", this is how it was known in Brazil, it has been part of Brazilian life since the 1950s.
It is very difficult for someone over the age of thirty, not to have a story about a "Fusca".
Until the 90s, every Brazilian learned to drive in a "Fusca", the first car of a worker, was a "Fusca", in the 70s the cars of the police were the "Fusca".
He honored with many merits the title of "Popular Car".
I'm not sure if the last "Fusca" were made in Brazil or Mexico.
And yes, I had a "Fusca", it was not my first car, but I did.
60's 
80's 
50's or 60'sTop-Cat
It is truly an enduring and endearing motor car! Thank you for this reply.
Naraku
Draconarius
The Germans also loved the Czech Tatra. Hitler told Porsche: "This is the car for my roads". It's obvious Porsche copied the Tatra's in designing the Volkswagen, especially the concept of a rear-mounted, air cooled engine. Tatra filed suit, but the German take over of Czechoslovakia in 1938 put an end to that. VW finally settled out of court in 1965 for a reported one million Deutschmarks. During the war, Tatra's were popular with the German military and Nazi officials; Erwin Rommel and Ernst Heinkel each owned one.Encore tu as raison, Messa! When I think of the lovely Citroen Onze and Quinze Legere, I am reminded how fond the Gestapo were of them too!
Tatra resumed production under the Communist in post war Czechoslovakia. They became status symbols for Party elites throughout the Warsaw Pact. Even the Russian bigwigs preferred them to the native built GAZ models.
Very true - the large Tatras were (and are) exotic cars and very desirable. The impact of Germany on Czechoslovakia's motoring public went even further, since they forced a change to driving on the right and new vehicles had to be constructed as left-hand drives!
finding a human body on the hearthIt's general since that the human-body is appeared on this hearth !!!
sounds like the start of another story!
(sorry Messaline, your English is always lovely
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