28 Comments Posted by Suasponta

You can see the façade that fell from the ceiling clearly now from the scar in the upper right hand of the photo. It’s not the exterior that is rotting away, it’s the interior.

Wow! What color! Big wooden widow frame that fell from the heavens, perhaps ?

It looks so European. It’s a testament of American ancestry. Motts, I love the hall the shots. Nice depth. Was it as massive as the photo’s perspective?

Also, Constintina wire on the fence top,. Nice touch.

I’ve seen a hole like that in a door before. I think the Raccoon’s might have broken through or, it could be Skunks.

Mr. Mott. is that reflection of pipes on the water from the ceiling or, pipes just under the water line?

What No Smoking?! This is a perfect place for a smoke!

Motts, love the Marquee photo. Awesome early 20th century architecture and, has my bro’s name spray painted on a big piece of plywood and tacked to a chain link fence. This could very well be his Xmas gift….. Rock on.

Mr. Motts, I personally think a documentary would be much better then a book.

Man, seeing that 10 lb. typewriter LucieLou makes me apperciate my Blackberry so much more!

Terrifiying, yet life goes on. She is covered in clothing pretty much from head to toe like a hazmat suit.

Most people probably think that after WWI most nations agreed never to use chemical weapons again against another. This is not true. Both the USA and Great Britain planned and meant to use gas during WWII. Germany as a consequence of the Versailles dictate of 1919, was forbidden to produce and import any kind of gas or liquids that could be used to produce such gasses, Article 171.
The Reich kept strictly to the requirement of the Versailles dictate regarding chemical warfare equipment. Even the Weimar Republic kept to the dictate. During the Sea Disarmament Conference, 1921/22, in Washington, the following nations did not agree to gas or any chemical weapons being dangerous weapons: USA, England, France, Japan and Italy. The use of chemical weapons were discussed, but without an agreement being signed.

In June 1925 in Geneva the question was once again discussed, one reached the so-called Geneva Gas-War Protocol. Out of the 44 nations attending the Geneva conference 38 had, by the end of 1935, signed the protocol. 21 nations took reservation, 17 were reluctant. By the end of 1935, 28 nations had ratified the convention. But 10 refused, among those were USA, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Luxemburg, and various nations in South America. The Reich signed without any reservations.

However, this did not stop the Nazi's from using carbon monoxide and cyclone- B to kill Jews and other prisoners, even their own people.

They look like a small child's casket, too me, thus my first comment. I wonder what the morbidity rate was the last few months of the war, here in the bunker. Given the stifling conditions and the and dwindling medical supplies It must have been high especially among the young and old.

Looks like a bin of potential tetanus. You ask why? Because C. tetani is an anaerobic bacterium, it and its endospores survive well in an environment that lacks oxygen. Hence, stepping on a nail (rusty or not) may result in a tetanus infection, as the low-oxygen (anaerobic) environment is provided by the same object which causes a puncture wound, delivering endospores to a suitable environment for growth.

Quiet! no way! can you image it crammed full of snoring adults and crying babies! Plus figure in the echo factor. I'm sure it was a cacophony of noise.