Specials - Sketches and gnomes...

Sketches and gnomes...

Thanks to BN I can let you share some great sketches and 'gnome wall-paper' with me.
All were taken inside several small Vf - personnel or office bunkers somewhere on the Atlantikwall in Holland. All bunkers are well locked up and inaccessible ... except for bats!

Bunker 1

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a woman laying down and several elderly people

the Luftwaffe eagle

some figures looking like Greek gods: a running lady poring water out of a jar, a face

a woman looking up

Bunker 2: "the gnome bunker..."

a fairy-tale world inside a bunker...

Bunker 3

Vermittlung
Wir lassen uns durch
einen Anschiss nicht
aus der Ruhe bringen
denken immer nur an den Wahlspruch

des Götz von Berlichingen

... this saying was "Kiss my arse". GvB was a famous German knight (1480-1560). In the siege of Landshut (1505) he lost his right hand (that explanes the symbol of the 17th SS-Div.) The legend goes that he told the bishop of Bamberg: 'Hinten Zu! Hintenzu, da magst du mich hinten lecken!'. It inspired Goethe to write the GvB play, 1773. 

BLITZ KRIEG!

SIEG HEIL!

love birds, a war ship

Bunker 4: Great and very well preserved BunkerArt!

Wovon kann der Landser denn träumen!

..a cosy life! The fond is the socalled 'Sütterlin'.

singing and making music together

a gun practice cartoon

Bunker 5

just one picture...a phantom from the past...

A pin-up still looking great, but for ever frozen in the forties ... great!