Metal Up Your Ass and all that Jazz Room V2

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 bartosso wrote:

 UMUR wrote:

Went with the wife and kids bicycling to visit Fortun Fortet: http://www.fortunfortet.dk/FFsider/ffleksikon/ff/ff.htm. Build around 1891-92 is was once a part of the "NorthFront" defence system which was meant to defend Copenhagen from invaders. It´s not more than a couple of kilometers from where I live now and from where I lived as a child. Me and my Brother used to break into the fort when we were younger and roam the mystic, dark, and haunted place.

Oh man, that brings back some memories! I had ruins of Jewish Funeral House (direct translation from Polish as it's not a parlour or anything, just a sort of a temple for the dead) by a Jewish cemetery in my hometown. There were a lot of those as the Jewish community in Poland and Germany was very big before WWII. I broke into the ruins once with my then girlfriend and her friend. As you said, there is something about such places - they usually are monuments to the history gone wrong. Now, finally, they are renovating the building - it will be a museum commemorating the community, exterminated by Nazis during the war. 

Although WW2 was a terrible tragedy, it´s still incredibly interesting in hindsight. The many famous battles are of course interesting, but I actually find the psychology aspect of the war and the years leading to the war even more interesting. How the hell Hitler and his followers could convince pretty regular Germans, that it was OK to despise and regard jews, homosexuals, mentally/pshysically handicapped, and other minorities as vermin, who should be exterminated, is scary but also interesting. It´s pretty basic mechanism that we see repeated Again and Again in hot zones all over the World. I Wonder if the human race will ever get smarter, or if our egos and lust for power will be our undoing.