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East and West Berlins celebrate the lifting of travel restrictions on East Germans on top of the Berlin Wall, in front of the Brandenburg Gate (1989).
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Communist Factory Clock
A very large industrial factory clock from East Germany in the Communist era by Gerätewerke, Leipzig.
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East Berlin, 1956-1990
First documented in the 13th century, Berlin became the capital Prussia (1701) and the German Empire (1871). After WWII Berlin was divided into 4 sectors. The American, British and French sectors merged to West Berlin, while the Soviet sector became East Berlin and de facto capital of communist East Germany.
While West Berlin stayed with the flag introduced in 1911, East Berlin used a new flag with the coat of arms that was introduced in 1934. The bear as heraldic beast is derived from the Name Berlin. It’s a so called “canting arm” that simply represents the bearer’s name.
After several weeks of civil unrest in 1989, the East German government announced that all citizens could visit West Germany. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Berlin (and Germany) were reunited the following year.
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Zwei Billionen Euro im Muell Was uns der ‘Klimaschutz’ kostet”
Die Kosten zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele der Bundesregierung explodieren. Das rechnete jetzt der Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) vor. Ueber zwei Billionen will Merkel im Kampf gegen das CO2 investieren. Kohle fuer die Muelltonne, denn wie eine Petition von 30.000 Wissenschaftlern gegen den Klimawahn zeigt, ist die Hysterie voellig unbegruendet. Wie Welt Online Mitte Januar mit…
Auswaertiges Amt gibt erste Schaetzungen zum Familiennachzug bekannt
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Deutschland nimmt 200.000 Fluechtlinge pro Jahr, Frankreich einmalig 10.000
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Morphium fuer das Volk: Das boese Erwachen kommt nach der Wahl
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Germany & France to Tax Online People Renting Their Houses | Armstrong Economics
Germany and France have conspired to tax citizens who rent their houses after the German election. Germany and France are scheming to submit a joint proposal on…
The Revolution Cycle can be just 13 to 26 Weeks
…The Venetian Empire eventually crumbled by the same strategy of divide and conquer turning neighbors against neighbors. It was called the Mouth of Truth. Anyone could drop a slip upon anyone else and accuse them of whatever. They were immediately seized and assumed to be guilty….
When we think about the Berlin Wall, despite having an idea of how its length, we can’t easily envisage its real size. With this question in my mind, I decided to create a computer generated 3D model of the wall compiled together in a single frame.
I started by conducting some research on Wikipedia:
“The “fourth-generation wall” (Grenzmauer 75) , known officially as “Stützwandelement UL 12.11″ , was the final and most sophisticated version of the Berlin Wall. Begun in 1975 and completed about 1980,it was constructed from 45.000 separate sections of reinforced concrete, each 3.6 metres high and 1.2 metres wide. The concrete provisions added to this version of the Wall were done so as to prevent escapees from driving their cars through the barricades (“L” shape structure).The top of the wall was lined with a smooth pipe, intended to make it more difficult to scale. This version of the Wall is the one most commonly seen in photographs, and surviving fragments of the Wall in Berlin and elsewhere around the world are generally pieces of the fourth-generation Wall.“
The next step was to make a 3D model of a single segment from its blueprint and then duplicate it 45 thousand times. At that point I needed to decide how to compose all the pieces, so I ended up placing them together in the same proportions all from of a single segment. Doing this ensured that we are able to see both the shape of a single segment, on a larger scale, with more detail and the entire quantity that makes up the wall (exactly 45K pieces) together.
To envisage the actual size of the wall, the colossal structure (240 metres high) was placed in Alexanderplatz in true scale.
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Another step of the project is to have a 3D printed version of this fractal design in 1:1 scale (3,6 meters). So the viewer can easily recognise its form from a distance and upon closer inspection the wall can be viewed in its entirety. I am in search of commissions or sponsors to have it printed. Please contact me if you are interested.
To demonstrate the 3D printed structure in real scale, it was virtually inserted next to original wall segments at Berlin Wall Gallery of Newseum in Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: Sam Kittner/Newseum
In this animation you see the whole fractal structure (exactly 45.000 segments) with a collapsing simulation. The original full length animation piece is available in 5+1 editions and FullHD resolution.
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Carmen Sandiego steals the Berlin Wall.
In 1948 Nikolay Makarov designed this blowback pistol and year later it went into production. It entered service in 1951 to replace the Tokarev and Nagant pistols and is still issued today. All USSR issued Makarovs were made at the Izhevsk factory in Russia. East Germany, Bulgaria, and China were not a part of the USSR, so they made theirs at their own factories. This Makarov was produced in Baikal specifically for import to the US in the 1990s.
The unique round that this firearm is chambered for is the 9mm Makarov. It was designed with the intention that operators could use captured .380 ammo but NATO troops couldn’t use captured Makarov ammo. .380 and 9mm Mak are the same length so running it in a Mak would work fine, but since the Makarov round is shorter than the NATO standard 9mm Western troops would have to abandon using the ammo in their guns. -R
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