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My first post in 2007

2007-01-03T03:20:00.000+01:00

I hope everybody had a great New Years Eve party and a good start in the year 2007.

In the last time I haven't written very often in my blog and now I will do it more often. In the last months I had problems with my internet connection and since two weeks I have a very fast broadband internet connection. I have a guilty conscience because I haven't answered comments from my friends and visited their blogs.

I took many photos with my new SLR camera and now I will show some of them.

On 26th November I took these two sunset photos at the river Elbe and you can see it was a beautiful evening. Five minutes later when I drove home, I had a car accident and a Russian guy drove with his car into the rear from my VW Golf. I had a slight whiplash injury and the rear from my car was damaged, but now is everything repaired.

I tried out different technics with my camera and this is such a experiment. I called the photo "Brothers In Arms". You can see my Zippo lighter and three different kind of ammo in the background. Every American and German soldier know the Zippo lighter , the .223 Remington(5.56 x 45 mm NATO), .308 Winchester(7.62 × 51 mm NATO) and the .50 Browning Machine Gun(12.7 × 99 mm NATO). The US Army use these things and also the German army, the Bundeswehr. Mauser*girl gave me some advice and I will change the pic with Photoshop in the next time.

My dad is very sick since a long time, on 24th December he came into the hospital and he had a seriously pneumonia. Some years ago when he still was in the military, the doctors diagnose lung cancer and they removed one lung. Therefore is a pneumonia very dangerous for him and we was very worried about my dad. We went every day several times to the hospital and in particular on the Christmas days. In the moment he feels a little better. I used very often my dads Mercedes, because I have some problems with my Golf and in addition I have no snow tires. On 29th December I washed the car, relax a little at the river and took these photo.

I think everybody remember the story with the slipped disc in my back and it was still painful in the last weeks. On 4th January I have a appointment in the Endo hospital in Hamburg and I have to stay there for 3 or 4 days. The doctors will check out everything in my back and decide about an operation. When they make the surgery, certainly in the end of January and then I have to stay there for some weeks.

Usually you could watch my photos in full view when you click on the pics, but it didn't work and I don't know why...

Happy New Year

2006-12-31T17:19:00.000+01:00

In the moment I have no tume and I will write tomorrow or on Tuesday more.

I wish all my friends a great New Years Eve party and a happy New Year!!!

My first sold photo

2006-10-09T18:06:00.000+02:00

On 4th October I got a great phone call. Nearly two months ago I offered my photo "German Tornado" to the biggest German newspaper Bildzeitung and I have thought they aren't interested. Here can you see the photos in my blog. The newspaper assistant told me, perhaps they will use my photo and I get money for it.
On Friday 5th October, by the way it's Jen's birthday, I bought the newspaper and I saw my photo. You can see my photo in about 4 million newspapers in whole Germany!

Here can you see the article, my first sold photo.
I got 500,- Euro(about US$630) for the photo and 50 percent from the following receipts, when the newspaper sell the photo to other newspapers. That made my day and now I'm very happy.

Usually I should save the money, but I think I will fulfill a desire for me and buy a digital SLR camera. The Canon EOS 300D was always my favorite, but Canon not sell the camera anymore and I wouldn't buy a second-hand camera without manufacturer guaranty. Now is the Canon EOS 350D(8 megapixel) or Canon EOS 400D(10 megapixel) my favorite.

Since 9th October is these post in my drafts and now I submit it. I was depressed and therefore has nobody heard from me, Jen was the only friend who got a email because she had birthday. Jen told me again and again I should try to sell one of my photos and I think it's a big chance that it happened on her birthday.

On Friday the 3rd November I got the new Canon EOS400D with the mail and it's really a great camera. Unfortunately I couldn't take many photos yet, because the weather is very bad in the moment.

Here can you see my new SLR camera. :)

The last General

2006-09-20T21:31:00.000+02:00

On 18 September 2006, Heinrich "Heinz" Trettner, the last living German General of the Wehrmacht died in Moenchengladbach, one day before his 99 birthday.

During the world war II served about 18 million soldiers in the German army and only 7,313 awards of the Knight's Cross were made, only 883 received Oak Leaves. The Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes(Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross) recognized extreme battlefield bravery or successful leadership.
On 24 May 1940 received Heinz Trettner the Knight's Cross when he was Operations Officer(Ia) on the staff of the 7. Fliegerdivision(parachute troops) commanded by Generalleutnant Kurt Student. Heinz Trettner was Generalmajor(major general) and commander of the 4.Fallschirmjaeger-Division(4. paratrooper division) when he received as 586. soldier of the German army the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves on 17 September 1944.

On 19 September 1907 Heinz Trettner was born in Minden. In April 1925 he entered the army as Fahnenjunker and later he became Squadron Officer in the Reiter-Regiment 18 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt.
From 1932 till 1933 pilot training at the Braunschweig Flying School and he became pilot.
From 1934 till 1935 he was Adjutant of the Kitzingen Flying School and from 1935 till 1936 he was Adjutant of the Magdeburg Flying School.
From April till October 1936 he was Adjutant and Chief Personnel Officer(IIa) on the staff of the Higher Air Commander III in Dresden.
From November 1936 till September 1937 he was Adjutant and Chief Personnel Officer(IIa) on the staff of the Commander of the Legion Condor in Spain and also at the same time Commandant of the Staff Quarters of the Legion Condor.
From September 1937 till January 1938 Squadron Commander in Kampfgruppe K 88(bomber group) of the Legion Condor in Spain.
January 1938 till June 1938 General Staff training at the Air War Academy in Berlin.
From July 1938 till June 1939 Operations Officer(Ia) on the staff of the 7. Fliegerdivision(parachute troops) commanded by Generalleutnant Kurt Student.
January 1939 till December 1940 Consultant in the Inspectorate of Parachute Troops in the Reich Air Ministry.
From June 1939 till December 1940 Operations Officer(Ia) on the staff of the 7. Fliegerdivision.
December 1940 till April 1942 Operations Officer(Ia) in the General Staff of the XI Fliegerkorps(Air Corps) commanded by General der Flieger Kurt Student.
From April 1942 till September 1942 delegated with the post of Chief of the General Staff of the XI Fliegerkorps commanded by General der Fallschirmtruppe Kurt Student.
September 1942 till October 1943 Chief of the General Staff of the XI Fliegerkorps commanded by General der Fallschirmtruppe Kurt Student.
October 1943 till May 1944 delegated with the formation and leadership of the 4. Fallschirmjaeger-Divison.
From June 1944 till May 1945 Commander of the 4. Fallschirmjaeger-Divison. The 4. Fallschirmjaeger-Divison served in Italy and fought against the Allied beachhead at Anzio-Nettuno. They fought in the area of Rome, Florence, Sienna, Rimini and Bologna.
On 3rd May 1945, Trettner's division was surrendered in the vinicity of Vicenza and Bolzano. From 3rd May 1945 till April 1948 was Trettner a prisoner of war in American and then British captivity.
In November 1956 he entered the Bundeswehr(the new German army) with the rank of Generalmajor. From November 1956 till September 1959 he was leader of the Logistics Department of the NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe.
From September 1959 till February 1960 he was at the disposal of the Leader Staff of the Army/Federal Ministry of Defense, detached for training to the staff of the III Corps in Koblenz.
March 1960 till September 1963 he was Commanding General of the I Corps in Muenster.
From October 1963 till December 1963 he was detached for training to the Leader Staff of the Armed Forces/Federal Ministry of Defense.
January 1964 till August 1966 he was General Inspector of the Bundeswehr, the highest-ranking general in Germany.
In August 1966 he retired from the Bundeswehr because he wouldn't agree with some decisions.

He became the following decorations and awards:
- Combined Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds from the Luftwaffe
- Spanish Breast Star to the War Cross in September 1938
- Spanish Campaign Medal in December 1938
- German Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords in June 1939
- Iron Cross 2nd Class in May 1940
- Iron Cross 1st Class in May 1940
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in May 1940
- Kreta cufftitle
- Wound Badge in Black in March 1944
- Mentioned in the Wehrmachtsbericht(Armed Forces Communique) in June 1944
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with with Oak Leaves in September 1944
- U.S. Legion of Merit, Commander in November 1964
- British Royal Victorian Order in May 1965
- Greek Order of George I, Grand Officer in July 1965
- Merit Order of the Italian Republic in August 1965
- Merit Order of Germany, Grand Merit Cross with star and Shoulder Sash in January 67
- French Legion of Honor, Grand Officer in December 1969

I have met Heinz Trettner in the year 1998 during my army days as paratrooper in our barracks. He was about 90 years old, but in good condition and very kind. On the parade ground we commemorate the soldiers killed in action, listening to the military songs "Rot scheint die Sonne" and "Ich hatt einen Kameraden".

I like guns

2006-09-17T21:30:00.000+02:00

Some days ago my friend Adrian tried to access my blog from work and it wouldn't let him. The reason was the inappropriate content of firearms in my blog. What the hell? Now I will answer the call of duty and write something about guns. hehe
The pictures are my former guns. The first one is my Mauser 98k rifle, it was produced in the year 1943 in the company Mauser and was the standard rifle from the German soldiers in world war II. The second gun is my "Derringer" muzzleloading pistol in caliber .44 Usually is the trigger hidden and on the right side you can see the pistol in cocked position. The pistol is small but very powerful and it's much fun to shot such a "Derringer".

I have some links about guns and here can you download manuals and watch some videos of guns in action. The website surplusrifle is really great, there can you find informations about many guns and disassembly and reassembly instructions.
As example to loading my German 98k rifle, disassembly-reassembly and bolt disassembly-reassembly.
Here is a video clip of Mail Call with R. Lee Ermey and I think everybody know him as Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the movie Full Metal Jacket.
If somebody has further interesting links about guns, please send them to me and I will add them in my journal post.

Now I have inappropriate content of firearms in my blog.

Baltic Sea 2006

2006-08-16T02:42:00.001+02:00

The last weekend I made a trip to the Baltic Sea island Fehmarn with my nephew Christian. He is 18 years old and the oldest son from my sister. We arrived the island on Friday afternoon and search after a good campground. We drove around the island and found a good place at the town Klausdorf near the city Puttgarden.

This is Christian, he sat on a rock at the beach. He is a soccer player and umpire, he broke his arm during a soccer game some weeks ago.

Our tent was in top of the cliff line and some other people were around us. The weather was good, but every evening we had thunderbolts and rain for some minutes. On Saturday was it very hot and sunny.

Here can you see the cliff line and the nice beach.

I love to swim in the Baltic Sea and in addition it's very good for my back. The Saturday was very hot and sunny, normally a perfect day to swim but we had a problem.

Another view from the coast with some rocks, but the rocks wasn't the problem.

We had the hottest July since about 100 years in Germany and trough the heat grow many alga in the Baltic Sea.

That's a view from above the cliff line and you can see the water is green through the Blau-alge(Cyanobacteria) and therefore we couldn't swim.

Here can you see the water in close-up view.

There are many nice plants at the island and you could see some animals.

Since my childhood I love these ladybugs. The plant isn't a cactus, it's a thistle.

A hungry bumble-bee on another plant.

On Sunday we had also good weather and at noonday I walked above the cliff line and would take some photos. Suddenly was the sky dark and I could see a interesting phenomenon. Usually we have very seldom tornados in Germany, perhaps tiny ones and this one was really big. Mauser*girl told me, a tornado that forms over water is actually called a waterspout in English and she gave me a interesting link. Below the last pic is a text: "A giant waterspout in the mature stage in the Florida Keys in 1969. During peak intensity this waterspout had a diameter of approximately 90 feet."
I have thought in this area are the waterspout's bigger than this one in Germany. I appraise the waterspout had a diameter of approximately 300 feet.

I could watch it about 10 minutes and take 14 photos, before I had to go into my car. You can see two car-ferry beside the waterspout, they look small but these are very big ships.

Another view from the waterspout.

Three hours after the thunderstorm we drove to my aunt, she live in Grossenbrode not far away from the island. We had a nice conversation with my aunt, uncle and cousin. My uncle was his whole life in the German air force and since two months he is pensioned. In January 2007 he will sell his house and emigrate with my aunt to the country Spain.
In the evening after lunch we drove home and we had very hard rain.

Usually I would write more about the trip, but I had again problems to post my photos. Now I use photobucket and not blogger. Tomorrow I will visit the blogs from my friends, I need some rest and in 3 hours I have physical therapy to fix my back.

By the way, click on the photos to watch them bigger.

I'm alive

2006-08-09T21:53:00.000+02:00

I'm a member of the blogger community since about a year and since some months I have nothing written. I had many problems, but I think now is everything alright.
Here is my first blog post since April 2006 and I will show some of my new photos.

Here are some flowers who grow in our garden. The fist one is a photo manipulation, I changed the background to black&white therewith the beautiful blue is more eye-catching.

It's a Traubenhyazinthe((Grape hyacinth) also called Perlblume and they belong to the species Hyacinthaceae. Here is a link and below on the site you can see the species Muscari racemosum, it's the one in my picture. In the second link you can read a little about the flower in English.

In our garden we have a long Rhododendron hedgerow and here can you see one of the some hundred blossom. The Rhododendron is the state flower of the US state of Washington and West Virginia. It's also the national flower of Nepal.

These wild flowers grow on a meadow near the river Elbe and I don't know the name, but I like their appearance.

A dandelion with a little spider on the left side, she build a spiderweb. Along the river and also on the meadows you can see the dandelions everywhere.

I can't post more photos, because I have problem with blogger. I will try it later again.

Deja vu

2006-04-24T02:49:00.000+02:00

In eight hours I have a appointment in the hospital and I must stay about one week there. The doctor will operate the slipped disc in my back. Some hours ago my uncle has called me via cell phone, my grandma is sick and she have a heavy pneumonia. A emergency physician was at her home and she refused to go to the hospital. She is nearly 80 years old and I'm so worried about her. It's the same with us like in February...

I haven't take good pictures from Felix the cat, but here is one.

After the hospital I will take some better photos.

Felix the cat

2006-04-21T02:41:00.000+02:00

My older sister works unsalaried in a old people's home in our city and since about one year she know a old and very friendly retiree. He had a nine year old cat with the name Felix and the cat was his best friend. The man couldn't walk and he pet Felix the whole day, it was a cuddly cat.

The man died last week and since this day the cat wouldn't eat. The relatives would euthanize Felix and my sister had rescued him. He had nothing eaten the last days and six hours ago I had pet him about one hour. Felix began to purr, I tried to give him some food and he ate the cat food from my hand. I am so lucky about this...
Tomorrow I will take some photos and I hope he like it.

I'm back

2006-04-20T01:36:00.000+02:00

For about one month I have written nothing in my blog and here is the first post after the break. I write not about me, because nothing has changed and I wouldn't write another boring post.

In 2004 was a house search in Ratingen/Germany and yesterday was the 52 year old guy sentenced to one year and ten months in prison from the court in Duesseldorf.
The guy was a gun collector and the police officers had found 122 guns and nearly 11000 cartridges in his house. He had revolver, pistols, rifles, shotguns and even machine guns, all illegal.
This guy was really crazy and since about 12 years he had not a girlfriend and no sex. The guns were the compensation and he said he had masturbate in front of his guns. He slept with his machine pistol and some other guns in his bed and he had build some bassinet's(like the ones for babys) for his guns.

I think such a strange guy shouldn't go to arrest in a prison, he should go in a nuthouse. I love also guns, but not in the way like this crazy guy...

Springtime in Germany

2006-03-16T11:11:00.000+01:00

The title is not a mistake, you can see some photos of the springtime in Germany and it's sooo cold.
In the last week was it really cold, we had -0,4 Fahrenheit(-18 Celsius) and in the night even -20 Celsius. Nearly every day I had appointments with the doctor and I had become another injection into my slipped disc. In three weeks I have become about 15 injections into my ass from some different nurses, they were beautiful and it was very embarrassing. My back is not better and in some weeks I have to go to the hospital and my slipped disc must be operate, I have to stay about one week in the hospital.

In the morning I needed often 15 minutes with the ice scraper to make little observation slits. My car was also frozen on the ground, icicled was on the sillboard, front bumper, rear bumper and my car don't move. I had to remove the icicle to move my VW Golf...
I could drive with my car to some places to take photos, but on some day was it impossible. In the nights we had often so much snowfall and I couldn't drive with my car on the street, the snow goes up to the car door!

These sign was funny and you can read Gruenanlage(green park), camping, barbecue and open fire is forbidden! :D

Some minutes after the photo I had a problem with my car, it was deadlocked in snow capot at the parking place and I was alone... Fifteen minutes later a family arrived the parking place, suddenly was the helpful father behind my vehicle and pushed it. My car have roll, I shouted "thank you" and looked into the rear-view mirror, he was soaked with dirty snow capot. I had a guilty conscience, the poor helpful guy...

I had take the following photos some days later and it was a sunny, but also very cold day.

The snow melting in the sun.

A tree with a nice looking plant.

A hill with many shadows, it's a nice place and my favorite photo.

My car and on the right side in the background you can see our house.

In the background is the garden and our pavilion, you can see a part of the barbecue grill.

This is only a very small icicle in the afternoon, in the morning were the icicle's much bigger.

I hate the weather and I wish we had summertime...

Dresden

2006-03-06T03:55:00.000+01:00

I have totally forgotten the first movie I have watched in the evening, the German production Dresden. The story is about the bombing raids at the city Dresden in the year 1945.
It's the movie of the year from the ZDF(second German television) and the movie was soo bad. The only good thing at the movie was the accurate uniforms from the German soldiers and the male and female Hitler youth. The movie is a big love story like the American movie Pearl Harbor. The whole time you could see bad German soldiers who murdered innocent people, like civilian. Bad German civilian murdered allied bomber pilots. Bad German kids hunting jews in the city. Between these scenes you could see celebrating Germans and not poor refugees. A German nurse was fucked several times from German soldiers and a allied bomber pilot in a hospital.

another boring day

2006-03-06T03:20:00.000+01:00

Today was another boring day in my life, I was nearly the whole day at home and sit before my computer. Unfortunately I can't walk far enough to take some photos and I didn't want to drive with my car, because we have heavy snowfall and glazed frost. In the afternoon I have tried to go to the forest, but since I had become the injection in the hospital are the pains worse than before.

In the evening I have watch the movies Taxi Driver and Operation Broken Arrow in the television. Now I'm watching the Academy Awards ceremony and this is very very boring...

crazy family

2006-03-05T05:12:00.000+01:00

Last week a girl in Hamburg had stomach pain, she came into a hospital and the doctor assume a problem with her cecum. But it wasn't the cecum, she was 9 month pregnant! The 12 year old girl from the city Hamburg is the youngest mother in Germany and her little boy has a weight of 2830 gramme.

The parents, her classmate and even the girl haven't noticed the pregnancy. I cannot believe that...

two birthdays

2006-02-27T02:43:00.000+01:00

On Saturday I had visit my cousin Dennis, we celebrated his birthday and he became 25 years old on this day. It was a big party, I have had some drinks and therefore I had slept in my cousins house.

My sister had one day later her birthday, she became 39 years old. I have seen a lot of family members, my aunt, my uncle and my cousins from the Baltic Sea and many more.

hospital and more

2006-02-16T18:05:00.000+01:00

Last Friday I have got heavy pain in my left breast and till Tuesday I was in a hospital. At first the doctors diagnose a heart attack but it wasn't so dangerous, it was only arrythmias and a pleurisy.

The doctors in the hospital have checking also my back, because I have since approximately two month pain in the back. The doctor has send me on Tuesday to a specialist, the doctor made a X-ray radiograph and he said to me the pains are a long-term consequence from my accident in 1993. Shit happens! Tomorrow at 6am I must visit another doctor in Hamburg and they make a computer tomography.

It's foul weather today, it rains and since a long time I haven't take photos...

Hamburg

2006-02-10T03:48:00.000+01:00

Today I was in Hamburg and I have visited some drapery dealer. Mauser*girl need some special material and I have tried to become these kind of drapery in the city. Unfortunately I had forgotten my digital camera. But in November I had bought two books in Hamburg for Mauser*girl and I had take some photos.

This is the side entrance of the city hall and I have use sepia and old borders.

A big memorial on the city hall square from the world war. You can read following phrase on the memorial: Forty thousand sons of the city lost their life for you 1914-1918.

The front of the city hall in color. On the city hall square is every year the Christmas market and you can make a sightseeing tour with a horse-drawn carriage.

Germany...that sucks!

2006-02-08T11:23:00.000+01:00

Germany does not have sufficient money to pay me a occupational retraining and all my request were deprecated, although I don't find work in my old job. But our government squander money for other "important" things, to assist criminals!

Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with political asylum seekers if they are legal here and if they are hunted in their countries.

Unfortunately there are many illegal asylum seeker and the request for political asylum were deprecated. These illegal immigrants shall be deported in their homelands and now comes the problem, the people hide their homeland. These people cannot be brought back in their homelands and they must stay in Germany, they were supported by the government, so that they have enough money for life.

But our politicians aren't stupid they solves these financial problem! "sarcasm"
The German Secretary of the Interior Karl Peter Bruch(SPD) offered the criminals money if they mention their homeland and fly at home.

This extravagance has cost in 2005 more than 5 million euros... But not every criminal accept these, a illegal asylum seeker has deprecated 20000 euro. The government increased this offer to 50000 euros, but it wasn't enough for the guy! He said that he would call his name and leave Germany, if the Germans pay him 100000 euro....

On February 7, 2006, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ordered an early release of Motassadeq, the friend from the 9/11 terrorists.

Give me 20000 euro and I would leave these fucking country immediately!!

new avatar

2006-02-08T04:18:00.000+01:00

Ok, it's my old avatar but a little bit changed...

what age will you die?

2006-02-08T00:13:00.000+01:00

You Will Die at Age 52

52

Not bad, considering your super wild lifestyle

Want to live longer? Try losing a few bad habits.

What Age Will You Die?

problems and problems

2006-01-26T23:05:00.000+01:00

I have many problems and in the last time more and more problems...

I write this post on the computer from my nephew because my computer is damaged some hours ago, perhaps the hard disk. Probably I have lost all addresses, my photos, application documents, about two hundred scans from the book "Wir Maedel", everything. The computer is one of the most important things in my life.

Since several weeks I have pain in the back and on Monday I have an appointment with the doctor. After a motorbike accident in 1993 my doctor told me perhaps I get problems with my back some years later. Perhaps I must have an operation, my leg must be broken and I get some metal bars in my leg. I thought I don't get any problems and the doctor is wrong, but now I am worried. Perhaps I think to much, I don't know...

The good news from today I have become another gift from Mauser*girl and SGT Trueman, a movie with Nicholas Cage. Thank you very much! In some minutes I will watch the movie.

bright but frosty

2006-01-24T20:18:00.000+01:00

Some of my friends like my pictures and therefore I will show a couple of new photos from yesterday.

Wild ducks march over the ice...

...and take a bath in the frosty river.

A calm place at the riverbank...

...and the sky.

Beautiful reflections in the water...

learn by pain

2006-01-23T23:26:00.000+01:00

Learn by pain was a proverb during my days in the German Army and in the following case it matched very well.

In the last post I had written it's at the time very cold and now a 10 year old German at the city Selb has tried something. It was -0,4 Fahrenheit(-18 Celsius) cold and he licked at a lamppost...

Ambulance men must rescued the scholar and he was slightly injured. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the "intelligent" boy.

Perhaps Charles Darwin's theory is right, but I hope the scholar has learned something by pain...

it's sooo cold

2006-01-16T15:59:00.000+01:00

The last days were very cold in Northern Germany and it becomes colder and colder.

Some days ago I had taken these photo with a sunrise at the river Elbe. The river has a strong current, but nevertheless you can see ice floes in the water.

Every day is my car coated with ice and I must use a ice scraper for the windows. Not only the outside, even the inside is frozen and you can see snowflakes on the instrument panel. The snow is the scraped off ice from the windshield. You can see the time 9:15am but the time is wrong, it's in reality 8:15am. The summer time is still adjusted...

These photo is from today and the river is nearly completely frozen. My digital camera is made of metal and it was to cold to make more and better photos.

Thank you

2006-01-02T16:10:00.000+01:00

Today at noon a package from America arrived me with some Christmas presents.

Thank you very much Mauser*girl and SGT Trueman!!!

In the package was a very nice T-shirt from the state Virginia and don't worry, it fits great Mauser*girl. Two classic war films, I've nothing planned for tonight and I will watch the movies SGT Trueman. :) In addition four stamps with distinguished US Marines and one with Greta Garbo...

Many many thanks!!

river horse Bulette

2006-01-02T15:24:00.000+01:00

The oldest river horse of Europe died on December 31st in Berlin.

The hippo Bulette was born 1952 and his father was the famous hippo Knautschke from the Berlin zoo. Knautschke was born in the year 1943 and he was the star of of the Berlin zoo. Before the world war 2 had the zoo about 10000 animals, only 91 survived and the hippo was one of the survivors. The zoo was heavily bombed and Knautschke was also disabled by a bomb. In the year 1988 died Bulettes father.

In my childhood I saw the both river horses, when I was with my parents in Berlin.

bird of prey

2005-12-26T16:00:00.000+01:00

A lonely bird of prey in front of the sunset. Perhaps he search something to eat or he enjoys the great perspective.

It must be wonderful to levitate over all things...

frosty weather

2005-12-25T15:11:00.000+01:00

The day starts with a view over a field and with a sunrise.

It's light-colored and the picture seems warm but it is very cold and there is snow on the edge of the field. The road is very narrow and you must drive to the edge at oncoming cars.

The moss and the oak leave on the ground is frozen.

It will last for some hours until the plants have defrost.

memorial stone

2005-12-25T06:13:00.000+01:00

This is an older photo, I have taken it in autumn, it's a world war memorial stone and it's in a little village with 200 inhabitants. I like the autumn colors...

The upper part is dedicated to the dead soldiers of the world war 1914-1918 and the lower part is dedicated to the dead soldiers of the world war 1939-1945. Also civilians have died at bomb raids in 1945, for example two sisters, Lilli was 14 and her little sister Renate was 5 years old as they died. A 16 years old boy died at an antiaircraft gun, he served as a "Flakhelfer".

what is your style?

2005-12-25T06:10:00.000+01:00

What is your style? (with advice and pictures!)
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a bad day

2005-12-24T23:12:00.000+01:00

As I had expected, it was today a terrible day and anything that could go wrong is go wrong. I was invited for a Christmas lunch by my parents and before it, I have paid a visit to my grandma to give her a Christmas present. My bad expectations were transgressed, after the visit I was in a bad temper and very sad.

During the drive I asked myself why the life is so unpleasant and whether it can get more worse. Why certainly! If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, then it will happen and I had a car breakdown... I have left my car and I walked the last 4 kilometres. The Christmas lunch was not better, I was allowed to listen to a lecture what I have made wrong in my life and what I could do better...

Afterwards I wanted to be alone and went home. My feelings were a mixture of self-hate, sadness and anger. Suddenly a friend has called me and asked me whether I would like to coming to a party with some friends. The party is far away and he wanted to pick me up with his car. I thought it would be better as to brood at home and I have accept his offer. Every solution breeds new problems...I have waited and waited but he didn't come. I have called and asked him when he pick me up. He said to me, that they are already on the party and my friends have forgotten me...

Now I am sitting alone at home, drink a lot of beer and I watch the movie "Scrooged".

I beat some records

2005-12-22T00:27:00.000+01:00

I have taken only two photos within the last week and these are not good.

The last two weeks I was very busy and I have beat some records.

I had scanned more than 1100 pages of world war 2 magazines...this is not a misspelling, these were really over 1100 pages.

Yesterday morning I was in Hamburg and I have not found a parking lot. I have sought very long and found a parking lot far away from the shopping street. Then I had a new problem, I was allowed to park on this parking lot only one hour and it was very expensive. I had to run to the shopping street, bought two books and took many photos of some historical insignia. I had to sprint after that to my car because I had overrun the parking time by half an hour. It is a record to create all this within 90 minutes in the Christmas time.

Because of the long sought for a parking lot I had lost much time and I must to an appointment in my place of residence, which is 30 kilometres away. I had the appointment within 45 minutes and you usually need for this way over an hour in Hamburg. I have driven at excessive speed and needed only 30 minutes for this way! My car has a maximum speed of 165 km/h and I made 195 km/h on the freeway...it's unbelievable!! The speed-limit on the freeway is 100 km/h...

I have smoked to many cigarettes and this is the last and teariest record.

I am alive

2005-12-10T03:41:00.000+01:00

I am not absent without leave Porter... "lol" I was busy with other important things and within the next days I have a little more time. Tomorrow I pay a visit to the blogs of my friends.

first snowfall

2005-11-28T19:28:00.000+01:00

On Friday we had first time snowfall in Northern-Germany. I have made the following five photos in the morning and I was some hours in the forest...

A dark place of the forest.

A dog hunted me the whole time, you can see him at the end from the way. He was always in my proximity and observed me.

A conifer coated with snow

Another coated tree

A oak tree and blue sky

The photos are in high resolution, click on the pic...

Thanksgiving

2005-11-24T07:17:00.000+01:00

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who celebrate!

After Porter's comment "run turkey run" I must insert a second picture... "lol"

three photos

2005-11-22T01:06:00.000+01:00

A further sunset at the river Elbe.
In the last days it was very cold and you could see not far, because we had dense fog. Today it was cold, but the sky was very clear.
Here is three times nearly the same photo...

a lonely jet fighter on the sky

a lonely duck in the water

thousands of crows in the sky

If you click on the pictures, you can better recognize.

The sunset was the most beautiful experience of this week, the other days were terrible and I don't mean the weather...

disturbing childrens

2005-11-10T01:10:00.000+01:00

Children can be very kind, but children can disturb sometimes, too...

I haven't taken the picture, I would have laughed and the picture would therefore be blurred.

cold day

2005-11-06T02:50:00.000+01:00

On Saturday I was at the river Elbe and I have taken some pictures. It was a sunny day and it was so warm that I could wear a t-shirt. Why cold day? I explain this later...
I was at McDonald's, I have bought a Bic Mac and a Cheeseburger for me, I wanted to eat these at the bank from the river Elbe. I had unpacked the Bic Mac and immediately I had more than one hundred "beggar" around me.

Here are some of the "beggars", seagulls, wild ducks and a crow...

Don't forget the brant! The seagull on the right next to the brant looks like a model, but she was very underhanded. This seagull was the most bulldog and gripped after the Cheeseburger when I put it into my mouth. The Cheeseburger fell on the ground and all beggars attack my food. The seagulls have eaten up even the meat, therefore they are also called rats of the air...

I have sat two hours alone at this place and read a book.

When I wanted to drive home I stopped at a quayI and made more photos. Here is a excursion boat and the tower on the left side in the picture is the atomic power plant of our city.

My new digital camera has a autotimer and I wanted to take a picture from me with that. I hate pictures of myself but I had promised a good friend a photo with a smile from me. Shortly before the first pillar I am slip and fallen backward into the water. I was lucky that I before had put my digi cam down on another pillar. The water was very very cold and the wind made the feeling not better.

The water of the Elbe smells very unpleasant and now I had a problem...I had to drive home with my car and didn't want to soil my seats in the car. I have undress my wet clothes at my car and I have kept on only my boxer shorts. I have met my buddy Stevie at a traffic light with his wife Lena, the two stood with her car next to me...

Lena: (she laughed) Why you sit naked in your car?
Stephan: I am not naked, I have my shorts on.
Lena: (confused) Is everything all right with you?
Stephan: (sarcastic) I haven't paid my water bill, therefore I have taken a bath in the river.
Lena & Stevie: We call you tomorrow!

My friends know my strange humor.

I'm a dork...

Bismarck

2005-11-03T23:06:00.000+01:00

Last week I had a flu, but I also have made a couple of pictures. I was in the Sachsenwald and this is the biggest woodland of Schleswig-Holstein. I live only ten minutes remotely and the forest is very beautiful. The forest belong to the descendants of the famous Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck was the first chancellor of the German Empire. Bismarck got the forest as a present from emperor Wilhelm I of Germany on June 24th, 1871.

This old cobblestone street in the Sachsenwald leads to the railroad station Friedrichsruh and Bismarck's manor is on the left side.

Bismarck died in Friedrichsruh on July 30th, 1898. This is a small part from his manor and he is buried in this building. These are not stains on the picture, it's floating leaves in the air...

This is the railroad station Friedrichsruh and Bismarck accept many famous personalities at this place.

In the forest is a memorial stone for the soldiers killed in action from the battleship Bismarck . Godmother of the ship was Dorothea von Loewenfeld, the granddaughter from Otto von Bismarck. On the iron cross is written: For the death comrades from the battleship Bismarck - May 27th, 1941. The family crest from the Bismarck's is in the middle of the cross.

Left side: To honor for the soldiers Right side: As a reminder for us Below: 2371 men have stayed with their ship on the sea
Only 115 men has survived the sinking of the battleship Bismarck.

This bridge leads to a little island on a lake in Bismarck's park.

This figure show Otto von Bismarck. It is on the island and he has often sat at this place.

A look of the island, the sky is mirrored in the water.

Another view from the island.

A butterfly outside in the park. The countess von Bismarck has also a building with tropical climate and thousand of butterflies live there. I have taken many pictures in the building. I had a flu, the damp and very hot air wasn't good for my health...

This is a Mitrailleuse "Le General Malus" and this weapon is similar as the Gatling gun.

This weapon was built 1865 in Lyon and captured 1870 in the war against France. Since the end of the year 1872 the weapon belongs to Bismarck, it was a present from emperor Wilhelm I.

The student Ferdinand Cohen-Blind committed an assassination of Bismarck on May 7th, 1866 in Berlin. The used weapon in the crime is on the left side. The stuffed undershirt from Bismarck is on the right side, only two of the five fired shots hit him in the chest.

From the most interesting and most valuable objects, unfortunately, I don't have any pictures.

Enough German history...

Munster part three

2005-10-30T23:51:00.000+01:00

This is my last post of the tank museum in Munster. I have still more pictures, but I think this should suffice now.

This is the 8,8 cm Flak "Acht-acht" anti-aircraft gun.

The 8,8 cm was not only a anti-aircraft gun, this famous weapon had also success as a antitank gun.

My grandfather has destroyed with the 8,8 two airplanes and several Russian T-34 tanks. My grandfather serve at the west front until the bullet of a Frenchman pierced his shoulder.
At the eastern front he was very heavily wounded, a toe was torn off and a rifle bullet was in his lung.
Because he was damaged very strongly, he had to work in an ammunition factory.
In the year 1944 he was drawn again and heavily wounds from an American hand grenade.
The fragments from the grenade couldn't be removed and he lived with them till he died some years ago.

This is the Russian T-34 /85 tank. The T-34 /85 had a 85mm gun.

This is a German 2cm anti-aircraft cannon 38 L/65. These cannon had the calibre 20mm x 138 and was fed from a magazine which held 20 rounds. It fires theoretical 480 rounds/min and 220 rounds/min practical. The 2cm cannon was produced 1939 - 1944.

This is a Kettenkrad Typ NSU HK-101. On the left side from the picture you can see the VW Typ 166.

Crew: 1 soldiers and 2 passenger Years of production: 1940 - 1944 Total number produced: 8345 Speed: 70km/h

This is the passenger car Volkswagen Typ 166. It has a cruising range on the road about 500 kilometer and was a amphibious vehicle. Years of production: 1942 - 1944 Total number produced: 14283 Speed: 80km/h road and 10km/h water

This is the medium armoured personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251/7 version D (Armoured engineer vehicle).
Crew: 7/8 soldiers Armament: 1x handheld anti-tank rocket launcher 39 with forty rounds. 2x MG-34 or MG-42 with 4500 rounds.

This is the medium armoured personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251/9 version D "Stummel"(stump)
Crew: 3 soldiers Armament: 7,5cm tank-gun 37 L/24 with 52 rounds. 2x MG-34 or MG-42 with 2500 rounds.

This is the Field Marshal Baton from Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge.

This is the legendary MG-42. My grandfather and the other German soldiers called the MG-42 "Knochensaege"(bone saw). The lower weapon is visually almost identical with the MG-42, but the weapon was modified and is called MG-3. My grandfather used the MG-42, my father and I the MG-3.

This is the Sturmgewehr 44. The photos under the weapon show the "Krummer Lauf", a bent barrel with a periscope sighting device for shooting around corners from a position of safety.

Many pistols and revolver...

As always, the pictures can be looked big, with a click on the pic.

Munster part two

2005-10-28T00:28:00.000+02:00

Here are further pictures from the tank museum in Munster.

On the right side of this picture is the uniform from the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his death mask. On the left side is the uniform from General Heinz Guderian.

This is a very rare Sturmtiger and only 18 of those were produced.

His armament was a 380 mm mortar and at the mortar had a recoil of 30 tons!

A round weight 345 kilo, including a high explosive charge of 125 kg TNT. Only two Sturmtiger survived the war.

This is a Jagdpanther, it is a very late type and was produced in March 1945.

These Jagdpanther had much damage by bombardment with heavy weapons.

The Panther was captured by British troops.

This is a Sturmgeschuetz III G.

It was produced in Dezember 1944.

These Sturmgeschuetz was later captured by US troops.

This is a Jagdpanzer IV Versuchsfahrzeug(prototype).

This vehicle was also called Panzerjaeger 39.

This is a Jagdpanzer IV F.

These Jagdpanzer IV is coated with Zimmerit.

This is a Jagdpanzer 38 "Hetzer"

The Swiss army used the Jagdpanzer 38 until the year 1972 and the vehicle was called G13.

This is the American Sherman M4A4 tank.

Here is a further picture

I will write still another and last post, with further vehicles.

tank museum Munster

2005-10-19T23:58:00.000+02:00

Last week I was in the German tank museum in the city Munster. On Monday I wanted to drive with a friend but Martin has canceled. I have nevertheless driven with my two nephews. On Thursday Martin has spoken on the phone to me and asked whether I come along on Friday. The museum is very big, you needed more time than one day to look at everything and therefore I have gone once again.

I show photos of four well known German tanks in this post. Within the next days I show further and even rarer German tanks. In addition photos of the uniform from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and many many more...

This is a Panzer III design M(Ausfuehrung M).

It was manufactured in the year 1942 and was a part of the German Afrika Korps. The tank was destroyed by the crew west of Tunis in May 1943.

This is a Panzer IV design G(Ausfuehrung G).

It was manufactured in September 1942 ansd served with the 15. Panzerdivision in North Africa.

The tank was captured by British troops in the end of 1942.

This is a Panzer V design A(Ausfuehrung A) "Panther".

It is a leader tank with radio equipment.

France sold the "Panther" in 1946 to Sweden. The tank served until the year 1961 in the Swedish Army.

This is a Panzer VI B design B (Ausfuehrung B) "Tiger II".

The Tiger II was also called "King-Tiger"

All tanks are roadworthy, the Tiger II unfortunately not.

The pictures can be looked big, with a click on the pic. If somebody liked to see detail pictures from these tanks, then write an email to me.

JgStephan@email.de

tagged

2005-10-17T01:10:00.000+02:00

I have been tagged from Mauser*girl.

Seven things I want to do before I die:

1. Being able to write and speak the English language perfectly
2. Have a job, a job I thoroughly enjoy
3. Meet a woman these fits to me
4. See America, Australia and...
5. To own a Colt M1911 and...
6. Fly a airplane
7. To be a good photographer

Seven things I can do:

1. Handling animals well
2. Shooting with a rifle
3. Play billiard
4. Repair engines and other parts from motorbikes and cars
5. To listen
6. Laugh about myself
7. Make twisted jokes

Seven things I cannot do:

1. Play piano and other musical instrument (saxophone a little bit)
2. Eating less and more healthily
3. To draw
4. To do the splits
5. Forgiving me for my faults
6. Sewing
7. Dancing well

Seven things I say a lot :

1. "Pech gehabt"
2. "Das ist normal, ich habe immer Pech"
3. "Shit happens"
4. "Ich wuerde gern wieder schiessen gehen"
5. "Wo hast Du Idiot Autofahren gelernt?"
6. "Aliiinaaa"
7. "Kennst Du den Film...?"

Seven things I find attractive in a female:

1. A good character
2. A cultivated appearance
3. Intelligence
4. Honorableness
5. A sense of humor
6. Being not bigheaded
7. Nice legs

Seven celebrity crushes?

1. Heinz Ruehmann
2. Tom Hanks
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Angelina Jolie
5. Cameron Diaz
6.
7.

Seven people who have nothing better to do than to get tagged:

1. The Deep End Of The Pool
2. Brainxplosion
3. Serena Abroad
4. Fuck Howard
5. Fun With Hand Grenades
6. ???
7. All other important persons has called Mauser*girl

serious crime

2005-10-09T23:14:00.000+02:00

In my previous post I mentioned a serious crime this happened in the bunker. A very popular discotheque was there, a criminal was under the guests and ignited a hand grenade on April 29th, 2000. Over 1500 people had celebrated there and nine people got perilous injured.

Some days later the criminal Cueneyt D. was arrested and the delinquent has confessed. He confessed to to have ignited a Yugoslavian M 75 hand grenade, but he has refused every further statement. Cueneyt didn't show repentance and derided his victims in the courtroom. The injured have physical problems and live today with many small shell splinters in their bodies. The victims should get solatium, altogether 25.000,- euro. The criminal doesn't have money and therefore there was nothing at all...

Assumedly wanted the drug dealer Cueneyt take revenge and therefore this cowardly attempted murder. He originally comes from Istanbul and was known as assault and drug dealer. This criminal lives in Hamburg since 1987 and was sentenced for thirty-three crimes to the year 2000!

In Germany such dangerous criminals are punished very hard and he must for a long time into a prison. "sarcasm"

He was sentenced to twelve years and nine months custody! This disgusting scum lives now at the expense of the taxpayers and will dismiss at the latest in the year 2012. Then he can further traffic in drugs and attack innocent people.

That is Germany!

Flaktower IV

2005-10-04T18:20:00.000+02:00

Today I show photos of the Flaktower IV from the district St. Pauli in Hamburg. I have taken the pictures last week. This is one of the biggest ever built bunker.
The bunker has a length and width of 70,5 meter and he has a height of 39 meter. He has a wall thickness of 3,5 meter and the blanket thickness is 5 meter. The bunker was built in 1942 and eight anti-aircraft cannons 12,8 cm were on the building. He had an independent water and power supply and even a hospital. Eighteen thousand people found refuge here at air raids.

I stand directly on the Heiligengeistfeld, the Hamburger Dom is on this place repeatedly in the year. On my left side starts the famous Reeperbahn in a distance of four hundred meters.

Actually the bunker should be blown up 1946, but the plan was rejected. Almost the complete living space from the city was destroyed and windows were installed. Many people could live after the war into this bunker.

In 1992 the building was sold and the camouflage was removed.

In the district Wilhelmburg in Hamburg is another Flaktower as on my photos. A soldier of the gun crew reports in this link from his experiences.
The links are in English unless of the Hamburger Dom.

Some years ago a serious crime happened in the bunker, I report from it later.

Friday evening

2005-10-04T15:46:00.000+02:00

I have played billiard with my buddy Matthias on Friday evening. We have drink some Jack Daniels whiskey, although I find this drink disgusting and I have actually won all games.
At the last game it got boring and I have played the black billiard ball deliberately to the wrong hole.

I have only written this entry since I have promised it to Jen.

war graves

2005-10-03T05:46:00.000+02:00

After I have been in Hamburg last week, I took some pictures in our city on the cemetery. This cemetery wasn't used as of 1943, as of this year only persons were buried in family graves. Many war graves here are from the World War I, the graves of German soldiers from the World War II were leveled

The chapel was built in 1888, the design reminds of Gothic buildings with Romance elements.

The way with the old trees leads into the back part of the cemetery.

This memorial stone stands at the end of the way of the previous picture.

Here rests my dear son, our dearest brother

Grenadier Herm. Schmidt

Sturmbataillon 4 2. Kompanie

born: November 21st, 1898

died: July 8th, 1918

at his injury got on April 10th, 1918

our love follows you

This memorial stone shall remind of forty Russians who have died in the war in our city. At this place were originally the graves of four hundred German soldiers from the Word War II.

Your sons killed in action in the World War 1914-18

The grateful homeland

You can read the names of many killed soldiers on the two sides and the back. A mother from our city has lost all her four sons in the war.

These stairs lead to a hill on which another memorial stone stands. The stone is very weathered and you can hardly read the names, but he also dates from the World War I.

The memorial stone reminds of a completely destroyed company and many of the killed soldiers were from our city.

A look from the view of the memorial stone. The next picture shows the grave of a soldier from the World War II. It lay behind high bushes and was overlooked as the other graves was leveled.

To remember on

Gefreiten Fried. Hackmack

born: September 28th, 1922

died: October 8th, 1943

He died for Fuehrer and Vaterland

How always, click on the photos to zoom in.

Bergedorf Castle

2005-09-29T23:34:00.000+02:00

Bergedorf is a district from the city Hamburg, in the north of Germany.
I have worked in Bergedorf in a company for ten years. We had an hour lunch break every day and I have spent these time mostly in the big palace garden. It is the only castle on Hamburg's area from the medieval times.

Originally stood here a water-castle which has Albrecht von Orlamuende build in the year 1220. The dukes of Saxony took the castle some years later. The Hanseatic citys Luebeck and Hamburg conquered the castle in 1420.

Hamburg and Luebeck together dominate over Bergedorf for almost 450 years, into the European history a unequaled long time period.

Since the 15th century the castle was rebuilt and enlarged repeatedly. In 1868 bought Hamburg Luebeck's shares for 200,000 Taler and became an alone owner.

In the photos you only recognizes very few, since the sun was rising at this moment. On the last photo, the moon can be seen in the sky.
Click on the photos to zoom in.

what's your favorite?

2005-09-29T20:14:00.000+02:00

I have stolen this from Mauser*girl's Blog. I hope you also go along with that. I have learned something through this, I also can change the color from the text and the size now. ^^
You may laugh about me, I have two left hands in these things.

... bodywash
Dependent on my mood and it must smell good

... sport to participate in
Shooting (but unfortunately, not made since long)

... place to go for the weekend
In the nature or historical places

... bar to have some drinks at
I don't often go in bars, if I then go, into an Irish pub

... alcoholic drink
Beer or sometimes vodka orange

... position on the couch
Tailor seat

... position to sleep in
I lie on the side and have tightened the legs

... place to have dinner
Greek or turkish restaurant

... places to shop
I hate shops (except small ancient stores)

... piece of clothing
Jeans and T-shirt

... computer program
I have two left hands (see above)

... electronic gadget
Digital camera

... place in your home
Living room

... thing you own
My PC, the connection to the outside world

fun with hand grenades

2005-09-26T21:20:00.000+02:00

I have borrowed the title of my post from Dreadcow's Blog name. I was away in the Dueneberg forest and have stumbled over a heap of rusty objects. I have looked at that obstacle more closely and these were over thirty hand grenades.
The locking pins were almost completely corrode and I was very lucky for it they didnt explode!

This was sufficient fun in my opinion and now Im showing pictures from the forest in Kruemmel, in the other quarter from our city.

This is the old water tower in Kruemmel, the tower was built in 1917 because he was planned in the Hindenburg-program. Like by a miracle, he was only slightly damaged in the World War II. The tower is very unstable and should be blown up some years ago. This plan was rejected and he shall be restored soon.

I have taken this photo in the water tower, unfortunately, I couldn't get to the upper storys. The stairs are damaged very strongly and it would have been too risky.

This is a bunker for a single person and you can see him also in my first picture. If to penetrate bombers were reported, a man had to keep fire watch there. This man had to report the exact places of the bombs strike in, so that the fire department could react. There was very many of these bunkers, distributed on the whole area.

This is the entrance to a big bunker and I have only looked with a flashlight, I wouldn't like to be buried under a cairn.

This building is more than six meters high and has many branched walks.

The entrance in the close-up view.

Stairs to a upper story.

Another wrecked building.

A room of this building with windows.

This building is directly behind the water tower.

I had great problems with Blogger and needed almost four hours for this post. The whole week wasn't particularly good and I had many problems.
However, there was couple of positive news. I had sent Mauser*girl valuable objects for sale or exchange and she has brought me a great delight with that. She and SGT Trueman had become beautiful things for me and I am very grateful to both.

bullshit day

2005-09-21T11:32:00.000+02:00

Yesterday was a bullshit day, I got bad news. But the weather was very good!
I move around through the Dueneberg forest for relaxation. Dueneberg and Kruemmel is a quarter from the city in which I live.
In these forest was a very large ordnance factory located in both world wars. Today it is a lonelier and quieter place.

The ordnance factory was destroyed to the largest part on 7th April 1945 like the ordnance factory in the quarter Kruemmel. On this day 350 tons bombs were thrown off B-24 Liberator bombers from the 2nd/20th BG from 2nd AD on Dueneberg.

Few minutes later was the 14th/96th BG with his Liberator bombers over Kruemmel and threw off 452 tons bombs.
The ordnance factory in Kruemmel is older than in Dueneberg and was built from Alfred Nobel in the year 1865. He lived some years in our city and he invented the dynamite.

The photos which I made, are not good, but the photos obtain an impression of our landscape.

That is the largest received building in Dueneberg.

Grass, bushes and trees grew also at wartime on the roofs, these were cultivated for camouflage.

There are very many high dunes in this area. Because of these dunes the quarter of our city is called Dueneberg.

The forest consists of coniferous trees and deciduous trees.

The most lanterns are still located in the forest.

Only few were destroyed at the bomb attacks.

The walls are broke or over-grow.

And still more

The sun goes down and I must fast away from the forest. In the darkness it is very dangerous at this place.

Outside of the forest, a last view over a meadow...

a calm place

2005-09-14T01:15:00.000+02:00

I have made already longer no entry in my Blog.

I sat this evening two hours alone at this calm place.
My friends pleased the photos of my last entry and I hope this photo please you also. There is no flower, but I will see sufficient in some days.

Behind me is the high bank of the river Elbe with bombed bunker from the World War II. It is hardly conceivable that before sixty years the hell raved here. It was the famous day of the "ramming hunters" on 7th April 1945.

My dad celebrated his fifth birthday on this day. He and his brother was alone, like me on this day. My grandparents died 1943 at bomb attacks in Hamburg. Some hours ago I had to remember, therefore I write it now.
I love my dad and I hope he become very old.

Since Monday is my best buddy Tobias with his wife on honeymoon. He called me a while ago on my cell phone. In some days I show photos of the wedding ceremony here and write my experiences. I didn't forget it.

wedding ceremony

2005-09-09T16:54:00.000+02:00

My best buddy Tobias has married his fiancee Miriam today.
It was very beautiful and I will show some pictures here within the next days.

I have no time, in an hour I go to the wedding celebration.

On Sunday I write again.

Planten un Blomen

2005-09-07T05:03:00.000+02:00

I was with the youngest son of my sister on August 26th in Hamburg at "Planten un Blomen".
I had borrowed the digital camera from my older sister at the first time.

Here are a couple of shots, the boy on the shot is Florian, the son of my sister.

Berlin

2005-09-07T03:05:00.000+02:00

I was in Berlin on the international radio and television exhibition at the weekend. Actually I didn't want to go to the "IFA" but I wanted to fulfill a wish for my cousin. My cousin has a cardiac defect and already had repeatedly operation. He is afraid of the next operation and he told me, he would like to go to the "IFA".

My cousin felt good and he was very happy.

I have driven with the car more than one thousand kilometers on Saturday and there weren't any unexpected incidents. Although I was very tired after this excursion, I have then gone to a celebration of my buddy Tobias in the late evening. Tobias marries his fiance Miriam on September 9th. Within the last few days I have supported him at the preparations and therefore I didn't have leisure time.

My sister has lent me her digital camera and I have taken a couple of shots in Berlin.

This is number twenty of the many exhibition halls.

I stand between the exhibition halls on the central festival ground. The one hundred and fifty meters high radio tower is in the background.

A look from the radio tower at the central festival ground and the exhibition halls.

Exhibition hall number twenty.

Exhibition hall and traffic.

Traffic from the other side.

A Audi A4 from the DTM in a exhibition hall.

Another car

The Victory Column in Berlin, I have made this shot from the car on the return journey.

to change

2005-09-07T01:38:00.000+02:00

Shortly after I had written my entry "I'm ashamed", some things have changed.
The relief organizations collect donations and Germany has offered help for the victims of the natural disaster and also helped. Juergen Trittin is sorry for the many victims in America.

However, my senses of our government haven't changed.

The anti Americanism is very strong in all classes of society. Even when the Hurrican devastated parts of America, I heard many people dashing. I heard something, therefore I was very furious and wrote this entry.

The topic is completed with that for me.

a short note.

2005-09-03T01:45:00.000+02:00

I maybe don't have the time to write the next days, but I am OK. I have some things to report, in addition a supplement for my last entry.

I still must answer some comments in my Blog.

I write something to some entries into the Blogs of my friends the next days. Therefore Mauser*girl, Diana and European, please also read your older entries.

Within two or three days I am present again.

I'm ashamed

2005-09-01T22:44:00.000+02:00

I am ashamed of the German government and I feel very strange in our country. I'm missing the right words and I only can say FUCK YOU GERMANY!
I shit on the government and I hate their party members!

MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED BY THE NATURAL DISASTER HURRICANE KATRINA IN AMERICA!

The church and other aid organizations have not collected any donations and not offered help. They should be ashamed for her hypocritical.

Our government deride even the victims! Many innocent people have died. That's inhuman!

JUERGEN TRITTIN talks about the Kyoto protocol...
He shall be a conservationist?
For me, he is a hypocritical man. Preaching water and drinking wine. In my opinion YOU ARE A CRIMINAL and harm our country!

The cars got thriftier and thriftier within the last few years. Since our environmentally friendly politicians are at the power, the average consumption of their company cars has increased!?! They seeding hate against America and to bluster about Dr. Joseph Goebbels? Even for this demagogue, I have more respect than in front of you.

I HEREBY EXPRESS MY DEEP SYMPATHY FOR MILLIONS HOMELESS AND THOUSANDS OF DEAD AMERICAN PEOPLES!

shots part II

2005-09-01T00:15:00.000+02:00

I have taken a shot of the sundown once again at the same location today. Mauser*Girl had written this I have a little talent. This has pleased me very much since she is a very good photographer. I had borrowed a better camera today. Better is exaggerated, it is a 69,- euro digital camera from the supermarket.

The shot shows the yacht port again but I stood on a bridge and not on the landing stage. I like the appearance of the waves.

This one has not turned out satisfactory, the spiders had ended the fight for the area too fast. It looked in such a way, as if the spiders want to attack the duck.

Within the following days I will take some shoots of other beautiful corners from our city.

three shots

2005-08-31T06:07:00.000+02:00

Here are three shots these I have made on Monday evening. The pictures haven't got good since I'm not a good photographer and the camera is also very bad. But the landscape looked wonderful in original...

This shot shows the exit of the little yacht port from our city.

I have made this shot half an hour later. I am in Geesthacht on a bridge over the river Elbe and look in a southerly direction.

Here is my hated car. Before the golf is the bank of the river Elbe. The bridge of which I have made the previous shot is on the right side. I have driven home shortly after this, the temptation was too greatly to slide the car into the river.

This was a joke, I would never soil the landscape with garbage. ;)

nightmares

2005-08-31T05:01:00.000+02:00

I had an evil nightmare tonight.
Within the last few days I haven't slept almost at all, I was very tired but I couldn't fall asleep. Yesterday afternoon, am fallen asleep and first woken up after over twelve hours. I usually sleep for about four to five hours.

Perhaps this sounds very strange, I often dream things which are so or so similarly realized. Sometimes I think I am not quite normal.

At full moon I speak very clearly in the sleep and you can understand every single word. Sometimes I'm away at full moon as a sleepwalker, too. I notice nothing of these small excursions and can't remember it.

This makes me uncertain very much and I don't know what I shall think of it.

my opinion

2005-08-27T03:26:00.000+02:00

I was against the war in Iraq but I have changed my opinion months ago.
Fuck the liberals from our city! Fuck! They are very cowardly.
My friends are of a different opinion like me but they stood by me. Thanks!
My nose is broken but I still have my own opinion!

Made in Germany

2005-08-25T21:41:00.000+02:00

Tomorrow I have my Golf one week, on Friday I had become the car from the dealer. On the same day I already had problems with my car.

I went to the workshop on Monday and the fault wasn't found. At the test drive the defect didn't appear.

On Tuesday the car was in the workshop the whole day. The mechanics exchanged some parts and in the evening I fetched the car again. The same problems appeared on the home journey again.

Today my car was in the workshop again the whole day. I have got the repaired car back four hours ago. On the return journey I had the same problem again!!! The positive thinking hasn't brought me luck.

I am incredibly furious and I have one hour beaten the punching bag in my physical fitness room. I thought I could abreact me but I'm still furious.

I'm sitting now in front of my computer and the lent monitor. Why lent? My three months old monitor is still for the repair at the manufacturer. My television has broken also some weeks ago. All defect equipment is "Made in Germany".

Are German goods nothing more good?

my bikes and cars

2005-08-23T23:06:00.000+02:00

I have experienced much with my vehicles and therefore I write this entry.
These were beautiful but also painful and mysterious experiences. I condemned and loved my motorized companions because they have made me independent.

I have made the moped driver's license in the year 1991. My parents gave me a new Vespa Super Bravo as a birthday present and I have driven the moped for a year. I had only problems with the Vespa and they began already on my birthday. My guests waited at home and I made a test drive. Away I had a breakdown and came home shoved after an hour.

In the year 1992 I made the driving licence for small motorcycles and I bought a Honda NSR for me.

On this photo I sit behind my NSR and check my tuning measure.
I liked the bike but I got backache on longer ways by the crooked seat position. Therefore I sold the NSR after half a year although it didn't have any technical problems.

Then I bought a Honda MTX R2 for myself which was very rare in Germany. Unfortunately, I have only this bad picture of my dearest MTX.

This Honda was also very reliable and I didn't have any problems. With this bike I participated in many motorcycle racing and I broke me some bones. I won also some illegal road races with it and I was well-known in the whole area. In August 1993 I got into a serious road accident and I had great happiness this my left leg didn't have to be amputated. I lay in the hospital for months and had to learn to go once again. The in the accident tangled up car was damaged strongly but my stable MTX had only some scratches. My body fulfilled the function as a hard muffler extremely effectively.
I still had to run on crutches for a long time and this didn't stop me to driving the bike. I stuck the crutches during the journey behind my armed forces backpack. When I have made my car driver's license in the year 1994, I had to hide the crutches in the bushes from the driving school. I would have never been allowed to drive in this condition. I was not simple to go normal with a partial load of the left leg so that it didn't stand out. On my eighteenth birthday I passed the driving test and I told my driving instructor of my crazy deed. He laughed and said, you are a crazy guy.

I had bought my first car, a Fiat Uno Turbo i.e. one week before the driving test.

A car of this size usually has 40 to 75 hp. However, this car had about 120 hp and it was a rocket with four wheels. But permanently broke something at this car. The most expensive was the turbocharger which had to be repaired twice. The side window is broken as I have closed the door of the car! A German proverb, Fiat = Fehler In Allen Teilen(failure in all parts). On slick ice I slipped into traffic lights and the car was seriously damaged. I repaired it and a friend destroyed the car at an accident some days later...

I bought a thrifty Golf 2 with 75 hp ends of the year 1994.

With the Golf 2 I have been in Denmark, Sweden and Holland. I had the car one year and it stood several months in the workshop because of technical problems. The defect in the engine electrical equipment was never found. The dealer made a good offer from fairness to me, for a new car.

My new Golf 3 was all right at the beginning.

In the middle of the year 1995 this car also caused problems and was very often in the workshop. In addition, it began strongly to rust although this is very atypical for these models. My sister bought 1996 a new Mercedes for herself and I got her old car of this manufacturer.

I have driven the old Mercedes 200D with only few problems for two years.

I'm on this involuntary photo, drive to Berlin with some friends. With this car I was often in Bavaria and also on the Oktoberfest.

I bought a Mercedes 200E for myself at the beginning of 1999.

The car is almost the same model as my previous Mercedes, only facelifted. My old car had visually suffered strongly during my army days and therefore I sold the 200D. My 200E had serious electrical equipment problems last and even Mercedes couldn't remove the problems. I have recently sold the car.

Of my new(old) Golf 3 I don't have any photo yet and I also have experienced nothing special. I had already reported from the car.

The Golf causes problems and the workshop cannot identify them...

I'm a undercover agent

2005-08-22T22:09:00.000+02:00

I don't like people these are talkative and spread rumors. Although some stories are also funny and I can laugh about it.

There is a undercover agent in our town at the criminal investigation department. The man has the same first name and last name like me. We both have fair hair, the same stature and size.

For months I have got calls of lawyers who want to question me about regular inquiries again and again. Even my closest friends already had me in suspicion to be a policeman. A half year ago I have it explained to them it's only a rumor. My buddys believe me. I still get calls of lawyers.

On Saturday I was in a neighboring village on a celebration. I entered the place, some people got nervous and threw fast their joints away. I haven't taken it to connection with the rumor at this moment yet. Within the further hours there were incidents of this type again and again.

Then I met a former friend of me and he addressed me with policeman. I tried to inform him about it but he didn't want to believe me. From him I have experienced, who are of the opinion still too for it I am a policeman. Friends from the school, Teammates with whom I ten years worked and even my ex-girlfriend!

I AM NOT A UNDERCOVER AGENT!!!!

the curse

2005-08-20T06:21:00.000+02:00

Yesterday at noon I have fetched my new(old) car from the dealer. It's a VW Golf and I have liked this one very much. The test drive over one week ago has proceeded without problems and the VW almost looks like a new car.

In the afternoon the vehicle suddenly caused problems and the engine is permanent at stutter. On Monday I have an appointment with the car dealer. The best is coming now, I was shop and an unknown rammed my car and did hit-and-run driving. The damage isn't very big but the scrapes are not a advantage at a complaint...

In addition, the day had its good sides, I was with my buddy Matthias by his parents and the father has borrowed me several books. Two picture books over the state Virginia(Tidewater Virginia & Colonial Virginia) and two books about the American civil war(The Illustrated History of the Civil War & Weapons of the Civil War). :) He also has a Remington .44 caliber "Old Army" Model revolver of 1861 at home which he has brought from America. I have shot with this model some years ago, but yesterday unfortunately not.

I have an interview today and I need the car for this job. Actually I wanted to visit thereafter my ill cousin in Oldenburg and I wanted to spend the rest of the weekend by my aunt in Grossenbrode at the Baltic Sea. I have delayed the journey now. However if the car is repaired and I have the time, I make this up.

smurfs and the kkk

2005-08-17T04:57:00.000+02:00

smurfs

As a small child I saw very gladly the smurfs in the TV.
But are the animation smurfs in reality hid clansmen propaganda?
It is probably an older story, but today I heard first time of it.
In the InterNet I found some sites to this topic like these

http://www.evl.uic.edu/caylor/SMURF/aryan.html

I knew the Marlboro KKK conspiracy theory and I find it again and again merry, what some humans invent in such a way...

Baltic Sea

2005-08-15T04:43:00.000+02:00

Sun

In the week before the last I was on the Baltic Sea island Fehmarn for three days. My buddys Matthias and Sven had persuaded me. We wanted to stay with our tents on a camp site but all places were overcrowded. Although it is forbidden, we took the risk and built up our tents directly on the beach and we had there a lot of fun. The bad picture shows the sunrise from the point of view of my tent.
The water was very cold but I have taken a bath repeatedly every day.

Every evening we have made a barbecue and after this a bonfire. We have drunk a lot of alcohol, talked about the old days and laughed very much. Nevertheless the next shower was very far away and I made me on the way. When I was at our tents again I said this to my friends "I really feel fresh again". I had just expressed this sentence and a seagull shits on my head... Shit happens!
The beach was blotched with pointed stones and this hurt at the feet. After these three days I noticed a thorn in my foot. My foot has swollen up strongly and I must to the hospital for two days.

When we were again at home, we have experienced that a very good buddy died. Erik was epileptic, got an bout and brought down with his head against a radiator. He died of a fractured skull in front of his wife and his baby. He has got only twenty-five years old.

my boring life

2005-08-10T21:07:00.000+02:00

I have written nothing very long and I begin with what I wanted to do already before my break.

I stole this from europeans blog:

Things I have done in my lifetime, as of today:

() Smoked a joint
() Been in a wet t-shirt contest
(x) Crashed a car (My first car a Fiat Uno Turbo I.E. on slick ice.)
() Stolen a car
() Been in love
() Had a threesome
(x) Been dumped
() Shoplifted
(x) Been fired (Over eighty employees and I was one of them.)
(x) Been in a fist fight (Some weeks ago I caught an animal torturer and...)
() Snuck out of the house
() Had feelings for someone who didnt have them back
(x) Been arrested (But only half an hour! As teenager we took a bath in the open-air swimming pool at night and were caught.)
() Made out with a stranger
() Gone on a blind date
() Lied to a friend
(x) Been to Europe (I was in Europe almost everywhere but on still no other continent.)
() Skipped school
(x) Seen someone die (I saw a motorcyclist dying at the age of about six years.)
() Been to Canada
() Been to Mexico
(x) Been on a plane (I have flown six times but I have landed only five times.)
() Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show
() Thrown up in a bar
() Purposely set a part of yourself on fire
() Eaten Sushi
() Been skiing
(x) Met someone from the internet in person
() Been moshing at a concert (moshing?)
() Been in an abusive relationship
(x) Taken painkillers (Only in the absolute emergency.)
(x) Love someone or miss someone right now
(x) Lay and watch cloud shapes go by
(x) Made a snow angel
() Had a tea party
() Flown a kite
(x) Built a sand castle
(x) Gone puddle jumping
() Played dress up
() Jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) Gone sledding
(x) Cheated while playing a game
(x) Been lonely
(x) Fallen asleep at work/school
() Used a fake ID
(x) Watched the sunset (Often!)
(x) Felt an earthquake (No real earthquake but several kilograms TNT are intense either.)
(x) Touched a snake
(x) Slept beneath the stars (A couple of days ago.)
() Been tickled
(x) Been robbed
(x) Been misunderstood
(x) Pet a reindeer/goat (goats)
(x) Won a contest/race (Shooting)
(x) Run a red light
() Been suspended from school
(x) Been in a car accident (I have gone with over 40 mph to a car by my motorcycle.)
() Had braces
(x) Felt like an outcast (sometimes)
() Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Had deja vu
(x) Danced in the moonlight
(x) Hated the way you look
(x) Witnessed a crime
() Pole danced
() Been obsessed with post-it notes
(x) Walked barefoot through the mud
(x) Been lost
() Been to the opposite side of the world
(x) Swam in the ocean
(x) Felt like dying
() Cried yourself to sleep
() Played cops and robbers
() Recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers
() Sung karaoke
() Paid for a meal with only coins
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldnt
() Made prank phone calls when you were younger
(x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
() Danced naked in the rain
() Written a letter to Santa Claus
() Been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) Blown bubbles
(x) Had a bonfire on the beach (A couple of days ago)
() Crashed a party
() Gone rollerblading
(x) Had a wish come true
() Worn pearls
(x) Jumped off a bridge
() Screamed the word penis in public
(x) Ate dog/cat food (Cat food and I was about five years old.)
() Told a complete stranger you loved them
() Kissed a mirror
() Sang in the shower
() Owned a little black dress
() Had a dream that you married someone else
(x) Glued your hand to something
() Got your tongue stuck to a flag pole
() Kissed a fish
() Worn the opposite sexs clothes
() Been a cheerleader
(x) Sat on a roof top
(x) Screamed at the top of your lungs
() Done a one-handed cartwheel
() Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
(x) Stayed up all night
(x) Didnt take a shower for a week (Involuntary! In the armed forces.)
(x) Picked and ate an apple right off the tree (And many other things.)
(x) Climbed a tree
() Had a tree house
() Are NOT scared to watch scary movies
() Believe in ghosts (???)
() Have more than 30 pairs of shoes
() Worn a really ugly outfit to school just to see what others say
() Gone streaking
() Played chicken
() Been skinny dipping
(x) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
() Been told youre beautiful by a complete stranger
(x) Broken a bone (My left thighbone into several splinters, repeatedly my right and left arms and fingers. A cervical vertebra was partially fractured...)
(x) Been easily amused
(x) Caught a fish then ate it
(x) Caught a butterfly (But not eaten!)
(x) Laughed so hard you cried
() Cried so hard you laughed
() Mooned/flashed someone (Mooned/flashed?)
() Had someone moon/flash you
() Cheated on a test
(x) Forgotten someones name
(x) Slept naked
() French braided someones hair
(x) Grown a beard (Never longer than three days.)

which type are you?

2005-07-27T03:11:00.000+02:00

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

vehicle

2005-07-27T02:48:00.000+02:00

Necessity is the mother of invention.
I probably don't get any registration for the vehicle in Germany...

Vehicle

death penalty

2005-07-25T02:36:00.000+02:00

There isn't any death penalty in Germany, anyway not at humans.
Constitution-adversarial(verfassungsfeindliche)trees were executed some years ago.
You are certainly surprised, how can be a tree an enemy of the constitution or not?
Over sixty years ago trees were grown and you could recognize a swastika. But only from the air perspective.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/12/04/germany.swastika.reut/
http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2000/1205/lokales/0023/
http://www.zeit.de/2004/34/Stimmts_Hakenkreuzwald

Some years ago I had read from it. Now I have rediscovered the link , I was looking for a list where the in Germany forbidden symbols are listed.
When I had found the name constitution-adversarial trees, I had to laugh first time because trees behave normally very peacefully.

Much is forbidden in Germany because Neo-Nazis abuse these symbols. An example, in some schools clothes are forbidden, on which the number 18 is to be seen. Why?
The first letter of the alphabet is an A and the eighth an H. Perhaps this could be the abbreviation of the German head of state(1933-1945).

I am very glad for it we had the swastika and not knives and fork as nationality markings at that time. Were it would have been the cutlery, we must certainly eat with the fingers today. ;)

I find it well that the right-wing radicalism am fought but particularly the many bans remember me to this bad time.

gasoline record

2005-07-18T23:48:00.000+02:00

We have a new record in Germany, gasoline is as expensive as never before.
A litre of gasoline costs euro 1.30!
This means a U.S. gallon would cost approximately $ 4.80 in Germany!

I still dream about a 65'er Ford Mustang or a Corvette, but a small car is already unaffordable.
We have a big garden, perhaps I should buy a donkey for me...

40th president & bank robbery

2005-07-18T17:07:00.000+02:00

Last week we had very fine weather and I was often swim at a wonderful lake in the village Guester.
Usually I don't get tanned and I get a sunburn but it is different this year.
Unfortunately, my many scars didn't get tan and you sees them now extremely.

The idyll was only disturbed by police helicopters which searched for bank robbers. They don't raid banks in an ordinary way, they blow up the safes and rob them. In the little village Breitenfelde began this some weeks ago and they used too much explosive, so the bank was complete destroyed. They blew up four further banks and captured over one million euro. A couple of days ago, they blew up the bank in Breitenfelde again which was just rebuilt.

On the observation camera you couldn't identification them since they wore masks. The one carried a Ronald Reagan mask and the other one the mask from the film Scream.

a job for me?

2005-07-09T11:25:00.000+02:00

I sent my application to a courier service and the boss of the company has called me this morning.
I am a businessman. I haven't experience as a delivery truck driver and therefore he didn't want to hire me.
We talked longer and he wants to give me a chance.
I shall go on Monday as a front-seat passenger to check my suitability.
It isn't a dream job but I would be very happy if I get this position.

red shine the sun

2005-07-05T22:53:00.000+02:00

sundown

Since I don't have good news, here is a picture from our city.
A look during the sundown over the river Elbe.
I sit often on this landing stage when I want to be undisturbed.

dangerous weapons

2005-06-29T11:31:00.000+02:00

The German government has probably very little confidence in its citizens. Now they want to forbid the soft air weapons. Correctly, the plastic toy weapons.
As legend has it, somebody could modify soft air's to very dangerous weapons and they can cause heavy injuries.
They looked very authentic and they could be used for armed robberies.

I live close to Hamburg and therefore i take this city as example.
There is each day shootings with violated persons.
In the last years few hand grenades exploded in the city.
The owner of a discotheque didn't want to pay protection money to criminals. On one Saturday evening, when the discotheque was very full, the criminals threw a hand grenade in and injured some guests heavily.
The assassins of the 9/11 had their headquarter in the city.

I believe it give larger safety problems than toy weapons...

birthday party

2005-06-25T13:18:00.000+02:00

Yesterday we celebrated the birthday of my mother and more guests came than expected.
My younger sister came with her husband and two children, my older sister came with her husband and four children.
My grandmother and some other relatives.
My youngest uncle, who is only six years older like me, came with two children.
His wife could not come, because she got her son Connor at the beginning of the week and she is still in the hospital.

The weather was still very good and in the evening we have a barbecue.
And then said my aunt something which can make me very furiously:
"Your sisters are married, have several children and their own house. You are now already 29 years old, when you want finally a marrying and children get?"
I gave her an unfriendly answer and she spoke no more word with me.

This morning I had an appointment in the open air bath of our city.
It was very hot again and I swam only one thousand meters.
The sky clouded over at noon and we walked home.
It suddenly began very strongly to rain and even my underwear was soaked totally.

I'm so tired because tonight I couldn't sleep and this evening I must to the birthday party of a friend....

hard work

2005-06-23T21:18:00.000+02:00

Today we had a very hot day again and the sun burned.
I have unfortunately too much leisure and I have used this time to work in our garden.
The rest of an old stable stone wall still had to be removed and I needed for it more than four hours.
It was very exhausting to reduce the wall to small pieces with the sledge hammer.
The work made no fun, but I could diminish the annoyance of the last days a little bit.

Tomorrow my mother has birthday and the whole family comes together again.
My two sisters come with their children and husbands and then comes the stupid questions from other family members.
"When do you want to marry finally times and have children?"
I hate this and other stupid questions and everybody knows this.
I have sufficiently other worries at the moment and hopefully they spare me tomorrow with it.

My K98 rifle

2005-06-21T16:24:00.000+02:00

K98

In the last week I sold my K98 rifle at a very good price. It was manufactured by the company "Mauser" in the year 1943 and it was in a very good condition.

The weekend was much disappointing, I had made myself hope for a new job and had been unfortunately disappointed.
The weather was however very beautiful and it was very hot.

Yesterday I was several hours on an observation tower of our city. If the weather is good, you can see from there into the city Hamburg. I was completely alone and I has read a book until the sunset.

gunfight in Hamburg

2005-06-14T17:32:00.000+02:00

Yesterday was a violent gunfight in Hamburg.
Two policemen got a shot into the belly, a policewoman got a shot into the hip and another cop many bullets into the shoulder.
All policemen did not carry bulletproof waistcoats...

The whole began as a usual traffic control and ended in a blood bath.
The criminal, an Iranian, fled with his girlfriend and fired several magazines empty on the further escape. He carried a bulletproof waistcoat and had still over one hundred shot ammunition thereby.
Suddenly he stopped and shot his girlfriend into the head and then he killed himself with a shot into the head.

Many uninvolved also children were only very scarcely missed and dozens of projectiles hit into apartments and in parked cars.

The life in Hamburg can be very dangerous...

P47 back to the USA?

2005-06-14T15:14:00.000+02:00

Divers in Austria have found the wreckage of an American P47 "Thunderbolt" airplane in the middle of the lake Traunsee. Yesterday afternoon the wreckage was lift from the one hundred meter deep ground and the airplane is in a very good condition.

The pilot touched the water surface with his air-screw at a low-level flight on May 8th, 1945 and the "Thunderbolt" has gone down into the deep water.
A German soldier watched the flying accident and he rescued the American pilot.
Some days later Germany capitulate and the war in europe was finished.

Now the fight continues because the holding businessman shall have sold the airplane to an American millionaire but the Austrian museums want to have it in their showroom.

P47

P47 pictures

2005-06-14T15:11:00.000+02:00

Look at the engine cowling with a pretty girl.

P47

P47 pictures

2005-06-14T15:07:00.000+02:00

The very well received nationality marking.

P47

P47 pictures

2005-06-14T14:59:00.000+02:00

a nice cockpit

P47

which American cities best fit you?

2005-06-14T08:21:00.000+02:00

Actually I wouldn't like to live in a big city...

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American Cities That Best Fit You:

70% Atlanta

65% Austin

60% Washington, DC

55% Miami

50% Chicago

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

my weekend

2005-06-12T22:08:00.000+02:00

I had a very calm and boring weekend, it was cold and it rained.
My cousin and his girlfriend visited me on Friday and we played billard.

The buyer of the display cabinet has written an e-mail for me today, because he would like to buy my Mauser k98 rifle.
His offer of last week was very good, this of today is even much better.
You cannot shoot with the rifle, it is only for decoration - as useless as tits on a steer.
Nevertheless the decision is not easy for me.

At the moment I'm watching "Dirty Harry" in the television...

the newspaper

2005-06-12T21:41:00.000+02:00

The defusing of the bomb shall have been very complicated, because the fuze were bent strongly.

bomb

sex bomb

2005-06-09T17:37:00.000+02:00

Today I was shopping in Hamburg with my friend sandra. It was very exciting because, an American aircraft bomb was found it again. All the brothels at the world-famous Reeperbahn had to be evacuated altogether more than one thousand people.
The whores complained about their losses of earnings and the policemen were in a good mood.
The officials have seen well seldom so many easy dressed women, it was really funny.
Actually we wanted to a small store but this one lay in the middle of the closed area.
Before we, however, have driven home again, we still have eaten ice cream at the Hamburg port.
In the afternoon I installed a network interface card into the computer of a friend.
Now I write into my blog and eat supper.

Dynamit Nobel

2005-06-05T00:47:00.000+02:00

Dynamit

I have sold this display cabinet with ammunition today.
The display cabinet shows the complete gun cartridges assortment of the German manufacturer "Dynamit Nobel".
My former boss gave him to me because he couldn't use him any more.
The buyer paid me 129,- euro for this!!!
With so much money I haven't calculated and I'm very pleased about it.

sad day

2005-06-03T23:55:00.000+02:00

Do you know the feeling for it one is sad and doesn't know why?
I couldn't sleep last night although I was extremely tired.
This morning I bit into a very hard roll and a piece of my tooth has broken off.
Now of course I have to go to the dentist and I am afraid of him.
An adult man and fear of the dentist, it is but embarrassing for me but I can do nothing against this.
At the moment a storm rages with us and there is lightning and thunders.

chocolate cake

2005-06-03T23:31:00.000+02:00

Like chocolate cake, you are friendly, dependable and make a great friend. You're the perfect person to turn to in times of need!

open air bath

2005-06-03T03:27:00.000+02:00

In our town we have a very beautiful open air bath and I was yesterday morning there swim.
The swimming lane is fifty meters long and I have swum it thirty-five times.
So I have not accomplished my goal of forty lanes.
At noon I have nevertheless allowed myself a delicious meal in a Greek restaurant.
The owner is the wife of my friend Dimitrios who has been killed in an motorcycle accident last year.
The rest of the day was very quiet and I sit with aching muscles at my computer and write into my blog now.

missing soldiers

2005-06-03T01:44:00.000+02:00

GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) - Japanese diplomats pressed ahead Saturday with efforts to contact two Second World War soldiers reportedly living in the southern Philippines since they were separated from their division six decades ago.
The men - who would be in their 80s - were said to have been separated from the 30th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army and then stayed in the remote mountains on Mindanao island for fear of being court-martialled in Japan.
The astonishing claim that Second World War holdouts may still be alive has attracted huge interest in Japan, where veterans are marking the 60th anniversary of the war's end.
But the Japanese government urged caution, saying the report came from somebody who had not seen the men himself. Efforts to contact the pair also were complicated by the fact that the area in which they supposedly were found is notorious for ransom kidnappings and attacks by Muslim separatists, who have waged war for three decades. Communist rebels also are active there.
Tokyo first learned of the former soldiers in January, from a Japanese trader on Mindanao who has been trying since Friday to arrange a meeting so officials could try to confirm the men's' identities, Japanese Embassy spokesman Shuhei Ogawa said.
But Ogawa stressed that the trader had not seen the men and was relying on a Filipino contact, who himself got word of the mystery soldiers from yet another Filipino.
"You should know this type of information comes in all the time," he said. "We really have no idea if these two people exist."
He said the diplomats who travelled to General Santos city, 965 kilometres south of Manila, were still "trying to work out (the details of) a meeting."
On Sunday, they will be joined by an official from the Japanese Health Ministry, which is in charge of keeping records of former soldiers who survived as well as recovering the remains of those killed during the war.
According to Japan's Kyodo News agency, the two missing soldiers might be Yoshio Yamakawa, 87, and Tsuzuki Nakauchi, 85.
The Philippines, then a U.S. colony, was a major battleground in the Pacific. The Japanese occupation is remembered as brutal for its massacres of civilians and deaths of hundreds of thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers. After the United States retook the islands from the Japanese, the country became independent in 1946.
According to Japanese government records, the men could have been part of a unit of 16,000 soldiers on Mindanao, of which only about 3,000 were believed to have survived the war.
Japan's financial daily Nihon Keizai reported problems negotiating their free passage through jungles controlled by armed groups. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's spokesman, Yu Kameoka, also said that large crowds, including about 100 Japanese journalists, apparently gave the men pause.
The Japanese invaded the Philippines on Dec. 20, 1941. Years after the war ended, there were signs in the Philippines warning about Japanese soldiers still in the hills.
A few surrendered as late as 1948. In March 1974, intelligence officer Lieut. Hiroo Onoda came out of hiding on northern Lubang island, but he refused to give up until the Japanese government flew in his former commander to formally inform him the war was over.
The last of the three known former Japanese soldiers to surrender, in December 1974, was Taiwanese national Teruo Nakamura, who fought for the Japanese army on Indonesia's Morotai island. He returned to Taiwan at age 57.
In 1972, Shoichi Yokoi, who had hid for 27 years in the jungles of the Pacific island of Guam without knowing the war had ended, also returned to Japan. He died at age 82 in 1997.
Rumours of other soldiers hiding out have surfaced but were never substantiated.
The Yomiuri newspaper, Japan's largest, reported Saturday that the two missing soldiers currently sought were first seen in August by a Japanese lumber businessman, who relayed "the near-unbelievable tale of their survival" to a veterans' association, which then sent members to the island to contact them.
The two former soldiers reportedly said they feared being court-martialled and executed if they returned to Japan, Yomiuri said, adding the association tried to allay their concerns by sending them old magazines that reported Onoda's case.
Meanwhile, the convergence of Japanese reporters on the bustling port city of General Santos raised security concerns in the volatile area, and the embassy warned them not to venture out in search of the men or follow anyone offering to guide them. Philippine police issued a similar warning.

why English?

2005-06-01T11:50:00.000+02:00

I have decided to write in English and not in German.
My knowledge aren't good and I hope to improve myself in this language.
The word order is my biggest problem but words such as school can I write accurate...

a hot day

2005-05-30T00:09:00.000+02:00

Today we had marvelous weather and a nice barbecue with our family.
Afterwards I wanted on mine blog, but my nephew had problems with his motor-scooter and I repaired the vehicle.
After the repair he made a test run and came back few minutes later.
I check the disc brake again and touch stupidly this hot part.
F..k!!!
I have burnt my middle finger more strongly than the others and the finger became a bond.
What the next days probably still happens?

little "Jaeger"

2005-05-29T23:57:00.000+02:00

a long time ago ...