2/26/2010

It ain't over when it's over




I started this blog with a few posts on a Nazi eagle on a motorway bridge near Salzburg, with just the swastika taken out after the end of the Nazi regime, and its late disappearance.
A comment by mistereggz followed, likening the disappearance of remains to the dying of witnesses and survivors, and to the fading away of memory as a whole.
Here we go … It may have been one of those people who wants the Nazis back, or the formerly oft-cited 'strong man to bring back some order to those degenerate democracies' in Europe. It won't go away as it seems; bringing back the hurt to the sensible and sensitive ones. And it reminds us that dark history has not ended with the liberation from the Nazis.


2/24/2010

Winter road





Lucky moment: an unusually empty Pinzgauer Bundesstraße on the way to a pickup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, and a dramatic sky, time for a photograph while driving …