“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!” ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
During the last days of the war in April 1945 prisoners from the concentration camp Dachau walked in agony past this place to an unknown fate.
Sartre’s quote from his stage play has always been true. In small, insidious ways, and in large, horrific ways.
There were numerous death marches from concentration camps to other locations (i.e. away from the advance of the allied forces). In 2025 there was a remembrance march passing this sculpture in Bad Tölz behind a banner reading “Never again”.
When I take photos on my phone (incidentally, this one is called Gladys) I need to attach it with a cable to the pc to store it without loss of quality. I store all my photos on the computer and I edit only on the … Continue reading It’s complicated
Last on my SD car in the camera. You decide who is the monster here.
A sculpture in the foyer of the eye clinic at the Heidelberg university hospital. The last on the SD-Card in my phone. I hope it’s recognisable because when I took it my eyes had those anaesthetic drops in them and I couldn’t focus. By the time I’m preparing this post I still don’t see 100%.
This sculpture by Tomi Ungerer, called either Aqueduct of Janus or Janus fountain (l’Aqueduc de Janus or Fontaine de Janus), signifies the double culture of Strasbourg, shaped by France and Germany in equal measure. It features a double sided Janus head looking in two directions, west and east.