Photos: East Germany in 1990

[KraftAkt]

Originally Posted by Alex Linder

Look at these cool little beach things, I don't know what they're called, but I'd call them cabana-chairs. Never seen such on any American or Mexican beach, but what an interesting solution.

They are called "Strandkorb":

Wikipedia (Links)

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Wikipedia (Links)

Strandkorb

One item that belongs on Germany’s beaches as much as it’s famous North Sea crabs, is increasingly finding a home in backyards and living rooms.



Have you ever sat in a basket before? Millions of Germans can’t wait to do so every year. Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel squeezed into one with eight men. Thousands of these baskets are the first to occupy the beaches of the north German coastline each year, and are the seat of relaxation for Germans vacationing on both the North Sea and the Baltic.

With its reclining back, foot rests, neck cushions and side tables, the Strandkorb, which literally means beach basket, might just have Americans wondering if their favorite past-time seat, the La-Z-Boy, was inspired by this particular basket.

Usually big enough for two, Germans rush onto the beach to find a vacant one to rent. For €3 to €8 ($4 to $10) a day, you can choose between the square-edged shaped North Sea beach baskets or the more rounded Baltic Sea Strandkorbs to protect you from wind and too much sun while having a little bit of privacy for you and your loved one.

The Strandkorb was invented in 1882 by basketmaker Wilhelm Bartelmann in Rostock for Elfriede von Maltzahn, an aristocrat suffering from rheumatism. And what once used to cost around 70 reichsmarks in the 1930s, today with hundreds of different models and different fabric covers to choose from, can cost anywhere between €1,000 and €5,000. Its production takes eight to 10 hours of labor.

The most intricate part is the Strandkorb’s hood, which is still handmade. About one-third of a mile of weaved fabric and more than 86 squarefeet of foil are worked into each basket big enough for two. Weighing around 150 pounds, which can make it quite hard to schlep around the beach if you are not pleased with your spot: Still, ever so often, you do see people looking like turtles carrying their heavy shells − the Strandkorbs − around.

One of the oldest manufacturers in Germany, Korb GmbH on the Baltic Island of Usedom, has produced more than 250,000 Strandkorbs since its opening in 1925. The company became famous for making the G8-XXXL-Korb for the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm in June 2007. The ‘family photos’ showing the international leaders sitting in the basket went around the world that summer. Before the oversized basket was auctioned off for €1 million, it traveled to the Brandenburg Gate and chancellery and was even the target of anti G-8 demonstrators, who spray-painted it.

Today, many of the manufacturers not only ship their Strandkorbs throughout Germany but also to its neighboring countries in Europe and even to New Zealand and Australia. The company Sylt-Strandkörbe is also trying to break into the U.S. market. There, a couple of leading hotels are already placing their Strandkorbs, calling them “Made on Sylt,” on their beaches.

It is already a supplier to luxury goods department store Harrods in London. And since at the end of each summer, those Strandkorb-potatoes are finding it hard to part with their seat, increasingly more are bringing back home a basket instead of seashells.

http://www.atlantic-times.com/archiv...?recordID=1767

[psychologicalshock]

Originally Posted by KraftAkt

They are called "Strandkorb":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_chair
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strandkorb



http://www.atlantic-times.com/archiv...?recordID=1767

Pretty nifty too bad I don't go to the beach much anymore.

[Alex Linder]

I think a cheap lightweight version of Strandkorb would do well in America. 150 lb would be fine for the nice hotels with set beachfront, but for open beach, a cheap version of the thing would do very nicely, much better than shitty umbrellas and awful beach chairs.

[Alex Linder]

But the point is, this is the kind of neat thing you find everywhere in Germany - someone has worked an interesting innovation to deal with a small particular problem we encounter in life. The Strandkorb is open enough that you get to feel the wind, but closed enough you can grope your girlfriend or block off the sun. Perfect solution to the problem.

[Bassanio]

Give me East Germany of 1990 over West Germany of today. I'll take Poland of 1990 over today's Poland as well--without hesitation.

Wealth is secondary. What matters most is cultural and racial purity and solidarity.

What good are all your ducats and all your technology when your daughter is listening to nigger noise and fucking a Turk, your son is dressing either like a monkey or a ponce and taking it up the ass from some faggot, and your wife is busy denigrating Nazism and patriarchism while espousing the wonders of feminism and multiculturalism?

[M. Delataire]

Thank you Alex, it brings back memories.

[Alex Linder]

Originally Posted by Bassanio

Give me East Germany of 1990 over West Germany of today. I'll take Poland of 1990 over today's Poland as well--without hesitation.

Wealth is secondary. What matters most is cultural and racial purity and solidarity.

What good are all your ducats and all your technology when your daughter is listening to nigger noise and fucking a Turk, your son is dressing either like a monkey or a ponce and taking it up the ass from some faggot, and your wife is busy denigrating Nazism and patriarchism while espousing the wonders of feminism and multiculturalism?

The irony is that the commie-kikes were so worried about revolution they essentially froze things in place, which had the happy effect of, at the least, leaving white commie nations white. Jews took power by a different route in the west, through insinuation and deceit, but still more or less openly and legally as opposed to bloodily. So, more secure of their position here, they could fuck us within the system by opening the borders and daring us to do something about it, us not even being able to perceive the game being played, let alone do anything about it.

[Alex Linder]

Originally Posted by M. Delataire

Thank you Alex, it brings back memories.

Yeah, it does for me too.

[Alex Linder]

Story of commie breakdown in DDR.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...623492,00.html

[Alex Linder]

In Anglo-bequeaf'd countries we hear that Germans are sheep, yet from Anglos never a peep is heard when they're oppressed. Whereas the Germans stood up to the communists (1933-1945), and were the first to revolt against them (crushed in 1953), and were the first successfully to revolt against them (1989).

In the weeks prior to the vote, a handful of opposition activists had called for East Germans to boycott the elections with fliers critical of the Honecker regime appearing on the streets. And on the evening of May 7, after opposition groups smuggled clear evidence of election fraud to the West German media -- news which was then broadcast back across the border into East Germany -- the unthinkable happened. A few dozen East Germans gathered to protest the "election" results.

As SPIEGEL wrote in its first issue after the fraudulent vote: "Making free use of their batons, security forces went after a few hundred demonstrators who had gathered in central Leipzig on the evening of election day and on the Monday following. More than 100 demonstrators were arrested. Journalists from West Germany were not allowed into the city. East German media ignored the protests, reporting instead on the 'celebratory mood across the country.'"

[Alex Linder]

David Irving says there's no civil courage in Germany, yet he retracts his words about gas chambers, even when he knows that his retraction is a lie - while Zundel and Rudolf do their time in jail for sticking to the truth.

[F.W. Braun]

At least the old DDR was more German than today's re-united multiculti hellhole continuously invaded by Third Worlders who bring with them a breakdown of societal cohesion, crime, disease, dirtiness, environmental degradation, and overpopulation. Yes, Central Germans were poorer and when the wall came down naively ran West to see and touch all those bright and shiny things that a soulless, consumerist, hedonistic, capitalistic, decadent, and materialistic society offers, but deep down are they happier and spiritually better off? They're now Niggerized, Judaised, and Americanized like the rest of us in the multiculti West.

Materialism doesn't make one happier, all it does is produce a false consciousness.

[psychologicalshock]

Originally Posted by F.W. Braun

At least the old DDR was more German than today's re-united multiculti hellhole continuously invaded by Third Worlders who bring with them a breakdown of societal cohesion, crime, disease, dirtiness, environmental degradation, and overpopulation. Yes, Central Germans were poorer and when the wall came down naively ran West to see and touch all those bright and shiny things that a soulless, consumerist, hedonistic, capitalistic, decadent, and materialistic society offers but deep down are they happier and spiritually better off? They're now Niggerized, Judaised, and Americanized like the rest of us in the multiculti West.

Materialism doesn't make one happier, all it does is produce a false consciousness.

Can't rep you yet.

[Alex Linder]

Originally Posted by F.W. Braun

At least the old DDR was more German than today's re-united multiculti hellhole continuously invaded by Third Worlders who bring with them a breakdown of societal cohesion, crime, disease, dirtiness, environmental degradation, and overpopulation. Yes, Central Germans were poorer and when the wall came down naively ran West to see and touch all those bright and shiny things that a soulless, consumerist, hedonistic, capitalistic, decadent, and materialistic society offers but deep down are they happier and spiritually better off? They're now Niggerized, Judaised, and Americanized like the rest of us in the multiculti West.

Materialism doesn't make one happier, all it does is produce a false consciousness.

Come now, Freddy. You enjoy a nice toaster like the rest of us.

It's not the fault of the appliance or the hundred-dollar bill that the man sees in it more than it contains.

[Robert K.]

Any nation under mongoloid 'Russian' rule is positive according to vodkashock.

[Alex Linder]

I'm not going to fault an Eisenachwurst because he wants to munch a nice banana after years of Cuban greens called oranges, or buy a nice VW after decades of Trabants. That's not decadence. Decadence is valuing the dollar and the orgasm above all else. You can't force people to be good without killing their peopleness. Maybe you should viddy Clockwork Orange. Freddy, get some more arrows in your bag. Don't try to dry fuck the world into approximating your vision. Try seducing it, mocking it, luring it with tasty boloney and other fine meats. Maybe coo to it, and scratch its chin. Inveigle into seeing things your way. Rub its clit and lick its ear - whatever it takes to get the job done. Don't give up so easy! The Gotterdammerung is not descending because Heinzel McMulletstein huzzahed at the chance to purchase 24-pack of silky toilet paper.

[Rick Ronsavelle]

Originally Posted by F.W. Braun

Materialism doesn't make one happier, all it does is produce a false consciousness.

"In its crudest form, false consciousness implies a misperception of reality, or of one's relationship to the world of which one is part. On this reading, Plato's myth of the cave (Republic, bk. 7) might be said to be an account of false consciousness, as might Rousseau's infamous claim (in The Social Contract) that those who oppose the general will might be ‘forced to be free’.

Although he did not use it himself, the term is usually associated with Marx, and subsequently with Marxism, especially of the Frankfurt School variety. In Marx, the focus tends to be on the relationship of consciousness to reality as it is mediated through the prevailing mode of production (i.e. capitalism). It follows from this that false consciousness can be overcome only by addressing its economic source. But how is it possible to have knowledge of a consciousness which is false?

The danger with the concept of false consciousness lies in the possibility it affords to those willing and able to take it, to impose a ‘correct’ perception on the falsely conscious. This danger can be avoided only if it is the case that ‘truth’ and ‘falsity’ are self-evident. This in part explains Marxism's need to present itself as scientific, although the extent to which scientific analyses are themselves free from ideological dressing has itself been questioned, notably by Thomas Kuhn. See also falsifiability."

http://www.answers.com/topic/false-consciousness

[F.W. Braun]

...and?

There's a great deal that one can learn from Marx. He asked all the right questions about the internal contradictions of capitalism, unfortunately he provided the wrong answers.

[Bassanio]

He asked all the right questions about the internal contradictions of capitalism, unfortunately he provided the wrong answers.

Marx wasn't there to provide right or wrong answers. He was there to spread agitprop against the bourgeoisie, which was about 95% gentile at the time, and the aristocracy.

Bakunin and Proudhon were the real deal, and that is precisely why the former wasn't permitted to gain control of the Rothschild-funded International.

[Horseman]

Originally Posted by Bassanio

Give me East Germany of 1990 over West Germany of today. I'll take Poland of 1990 over today's Poland as well--without hesitation.

Wealth is secondary. What matters most is cultural and racial purity and solidarity.

What more of a foundation is there than genetics? The laws of physics? Thank god it's impossible to change that, or the jew would fuck that up too. Our genetics is our biggest treasure we have on earth. more than any art, any organization, any science.