the kitchen sink
An explanation for an upcoming slew of images:
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This weekend I experienced a sudden and unplanned jolt of curiosity about the history of the Third Reich. I’m currently reading an expansive biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who, in World War II Germany, fought back against the Reich, smuggled Jews out of Germany, and participated in the July 20th plot on Hitler’s life before being discovered, imprisoned, transported to Buchenwald concentration camp, and eventually hung. The book is grand, but I don’t want to say more about it until I’ve finished.
But while browsing history department webpages and articles pertaining to 1940’s Germany, I happened upon a number of photographs of WWII utilization of bicycle as transportation for cavalry groups of Nazi and resistance/allied troops, for the training of Royal Air Force pilots, as well as in several LIFE images of a bicycle-dominated wartime Paris.
I saved a bunch of the images and will be posting them over the next day or so, just because I enjoy bikes and history that much.
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inalittlebird said:
you’re so odd
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