"The Zoo flak tower, or in German, the Flakturm Tiergarten, was a thirteen-story fortified anti-aircraft tower that existed in Berlin from 1941 to 1947. It was one of several flak towers that protected Berlin from Allied bomber raids. Its primary role was as a gun platform to protect the government building district of Berlin, in addition the Hochbunker (blockhouse) was designed to be used by the German leadership, and provided secure storage facilities for art treasures. The zoo tower in particular stored the Kaiser Willhelm coin collection, Nefertiti's head, the disassembled Altar of Zeus from Pergamon, and other major treasures of the Berlin museums, and provided shelter for up to 20,000 civilians during the Battle for Berlin. It took the allies two years to demolish the Flakturm Tiergarten after its surrender."
Friday, March 30, 2018
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Ghosts of The Past - To Unearth the Forgotten
"What are these,
So wither’d and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ the earth,
And yet are on’t? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question?"
So wither’d and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ the earth,
And yet are on’t? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question?"
William Shakespeare - MACBETH
GHOSTS OF THE PAST is a new thread that I`m going to start soon in Omaimon Paradosis blog and will continue doing it in different parts. Each part will be about things we rarely see or hear about, if not at all. Things from the recent history and also from previous centuries and ages. Perhaps, at times, relics of them still standing in our days. Such things may be from architecture, arts, regalia, military history or just mysterious places. Ofcourse everything will be always in the line that Omaimon Paradosis founded for:
The standpoint of Blood and Racial Folk soul.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The Life and Action of the Man known as THE UNABOMBER
“History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a clear and consistent idea of what it really wants.”
Theodore Kaczynski
MANHUNT: UNABOMBER is a 2017 drama miniseries (eight episodes) by Discovery Channel. I just finished watching it and I fully recommend it to anyone who intrested on the Unabomber case. Definitely the series provide, an intresting in-depth view to the life and actions of Ted Kaczynski, the man known as "Unabomber" and also to the FBI agent who caught him.
Despite the the fact that its taken from the FBI side, it looks that at times there is a honest attept to unlock and present the philosophy behind Industrial Society and Its Future.
On highlights is the nice photography and the very good filming locations that makes the series looking more realistic and creates the neseccary contrast between the two worlds that clash. The narrative passages taken from Kaczynski's writtings (personal letters or published works) helps a lot to get into the ideology of the Unabomber. The question is, how can a healthy mind dissagree with such ideals and worldview? Personally, from what I saw and read so far, I found nothing to disagree with...
Official Trailer:
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
The Thing Which Never Dies
Even a man who knows nothing
knows that many are fooled by money;
one man is rich, another is not rich,
he should not be blamed for that.
Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die;
but glory never dies,
for the man who is able to achieve it.
Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die;
I know one thing which never dies:
the reputation of each dead man.
knows that many are fooled by money;
one man is rich, another is not rich,
he should not be blamed for that.
Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die;
but glory never dies,
for the man who is able to achieve it.
Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die;
I know one thing which never dies:
the reputation of each dead man.
HAVAMAL - Verses 74-76