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![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Germany-Parks-and-Castles-in/38/139248161_o77vX-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6325]
'Nightfall during carnival in Basel.'
Carnival continues day and night for 72 hours in Basel. One of the great moments each day is just after sunset along the Rhine (Rhein). It's the fairy tale hour. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Switzerland-Basler-Fasnacht/6325/105969293_roGQd-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6325]
'Nightfall during carnival in Basel.'
Carnival continues day and night for 72 hours in Basel. One of the great moments each day is just after sunset along the Rhine (Rhein). It's the fairy tale hour. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6324]
'Lone harlequin.'
During the Basler Fasnacht (carnival in Basel) a lone harlequin plays the piccolo at moonlight. Although being a harlequin, he doesn't have the standard harlequin face. He wears a Larve as everybody else, a rude kind of mask, but yet adopted to the harlequin character. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Switzerland-Basler-Fasnacht/6324/104903252_NUeMf-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6324]
'Lone harlequin.'
During the Basler Fasnacht (carnival in Basel) a lone harlequin plays the piccolo at moonlight. Although being a harlequin, he doesn't have the standard harlequin face. He wears a Larve as everybody else, a rude kind of mask, but yet adopted to the harlequin character. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6300]
'Morgestraich.'
Morgestraich, the start of the Basler Fasnacht (carnival of Basel) at four o'clock on a Monday morning. At that moment all street and shop lights are turned off. It is silent. And then this incredible noise breaks loose, consisting of seemingly random drumming and fierce piping. You need to study for years to do it right, however. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Switzerland-Basler-Fasnacht/6300/104846457_XrMhR-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6300]
'Morgestraich.'
Morgestraich, the start of the Basler Fasnacht (carnival of Basel) at four o'clock on a Monday morning. At that moment all street and shop lights are turned off. It is silent. And then this incredible noise breaks loose, consisting of seemingly random drumming and fierce piping. You need to study for years to do it right, however. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04215]
'Evening at the Haupplatz.'
Hitler loved Linz and rewarded it with lots of employment in the form of industry. The allied bombs it attracted did the town no good. Surprising therefore that the city centre has such a historic feel again. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/10-Linz/50100924_k9cHd-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04215]
'Evening at the Haupplatz.'
Hitler loved Linz and rewarded it with lots of employment in the form of industry. The allied bombs it attracted did the town no good. Surprising therefore that the city centre has such a historic feel again. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03589]
'Stift Melk, the Power of Baroque.'
The monks themselves criticised the unchristian wallowing in architectural exubarance of their new monastery. But it had to be, to impress in face of Protestantism, that even in Melk had the upper hand in those days. Now, centuries later, the monastery is still a must: 300.000 tourists a year visit Austria's largest baroque structure. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/19-Melk/50100911_QzNcY-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03589]
'Stift Melk, the Power of Baroque.'
The monks themselves criticised the unchristian wallowing in architectural exubarance of their new monastery. But it had to be, to impress in face of Protestantism, that even in Melk had the upper hand in those days. Now, centuries later, the monastery is still a must: 300.000 tourists a year visit Austria's largest baroque structure. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04277]
'Baroque and modern art.'
The baroque Karlskirche harmonizes well with the sculpture by Henry Moore called Hill Arches. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/4277-voyage/50100692_AyLuR-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04277]
'Baroque and modern art.'
The baroque Karlskirche harmonizes well with the sculpture by Henry Moore called Hill Arches. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04210]
'Evening at the Haupplatz.'
Hitler loved Linz and rewarded it with lots of employment in the form of industry. The allied bombs it attracted did the town no good. Surprising therefore that the city centre has such a historic feel again. Sidewalk cafés and cosy shopping streets add to the atmosphere. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/09-Linz/50100615_ebuMj-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04210]
'Evening at the Haupplatz.'
Hitler loved Linz and rewarded it with lots of employment in the form of industry. The allied bombs it attracted did the town no good. Surprising therefore that the city centre has such a historic feel again. Sidewalk cafés and cosy shopping streets add to the atmosphere. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.BAYERN 00653]
'St. Pauls church and cathedral in Passau.'
Passau is the last German city before the Austrian border and maybe the prettiest. Here the Inn flows into the Danube and the Ilz as well. You never need to search a long time to find a river front promenade. The Inn is green and the Ilz brown, so whatever people sing about the Danube, this never adds up to blue. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/01-Passau/50100546_ByWQd-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.BAYERN 00653]
'St. Pauls church and cathedral in Passau.'
Passau is the last German city before the Austrian border and maybe the prettiest. Here the Inn flows into the Danube and the Ilz as well. You never need to search a long time to find a river front promenade. The Inn is green and the Ilz brown, so whatever people sing about the Danube, this never adds up to blue. Photo Paul Smit.")
[GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Germany-Parks-and-Castles-in/38/139248161_o77vX-S.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.")
[GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
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