Arno Breker (1900-1991), German sculptor
to me sculpting is like freestyle rapping; I don’t know how they do it
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A German Airship Lands, 1930 (via English Russia)
On September 10th, 1930 the airship reached Moscow, circled above the city for two hours and landed on Khodynka Field. Over 3,000 viewers could watch the landing. The airship had 42 crew members, 23 passengers and 21 kg of mail aboard. It took the airship about 26 hours to cover the distance of 2,372 m.
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Helene Mayer - German Olympic fencer
Manfred von Richthofen’s first Albatros D.III was passed down to Lothar, seen here receiving advice from Carl Allmenroder. Some sources indicate that the aircraft was mahogany coloured with a red band, barely visible here, between the cockpit and national marking. Lothar regarded the aeroplane and a pair of Manfred’s old flying-gloves as talismanic, keeping him from harm and aiding his early success.
‘As luck would have it, I shot down my first ten Englishmen armed with these gloves and this machine,’
Not, Elend, Hunger, Zerstorung Bringt Der Bolschewismus1 on Flickr.
Destitution, hardship, hunger, and destruction is what Bolshevism brings. Therefore stay away from all Bolshevik machinations. (c. 1919)
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