75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 5: The Oderbruch Soviet memorials

Stage 5 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” leads me to the very important Soviet memorials of Oderbruch region, where Red Army crossed Oder River for the first time back in the beginning of 1945. I start this ~90 kilometres ride in Küstrin-Kietz, cycle on the Oder dike Oderdeich to Kienitz, Groß Neuendorf and Letschin as well as Manschnow, Reitwein, Lebus and Booßen, to finish in Frankfurt (Oder)… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 2: Berlin’s Southeast

Stage 2 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” on May 9th, the Russian Day of Victory, that is Den Pobedy, the memorial tour leads from Blankenfelde-Mahlow via Glasow and Zeuthen to nearby Wildau, then up to Erkner and Grünheide as well as to the memorials in Woltersdorf and Schöneiche… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 1: Berlin’s Northeast

Stage 1 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials”, on May 8th from Berlin-Buch via Bernau, Seefeld and Blumberg, to Ahrensfelde and Berlin-Marzahn, as well as Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin-Rummelsburg to Berlin-Treptow, where main celebrations take place… Read More

Waisen Tunnel – The East-West Escape through Berlin’s Underground

Berlin has many unknown structures. One of those man-made hidden things is located right under Spree River and connects the Berlin subway area between Littenstraße and Brückenstraße. At the moment Waisen Tunnel is subject to redevelopment. Back in 1980 the connection tunnel was stage of a spectacular and clever escape from East to West Berlin… Read More

Auschwitz – Humans’ darkest Side

January 27th, 1945, that is 71 years ago, the Red Army liberated the camp complex of Auschwitz. Since then the name of that South Polish town stands representatively for the biggest atrocities of mankind and for the ugliest side of war… Read More

1986 – The nuclear Hell of Chernobyl and the Fox of Pripyat Ghost Town

Pripyat ghost town is situated in northern Ukraine, where the country borders with Belarus. In 1986 there, only some 120km away from the capital Kiev, an epic catastrophe happened when the nuclear core of reactor 4 of nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted and caused an explosion. The detonation contaminated the proximity poisoning it for thousands of years.… Read More