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These stairs lead down to and up from the underground car park at the state theater (Staatstheater) in Darmstadt, Germany.

Run for the hills! Take me to the kittens!

Wishing everybody a good start to the week.

The reliefs were made by the brothers Albermann from Cologne (Köln) in 1905. The stone used was Belgian limestone. Amazingly, the sculptures were only minimally damaged in the bombing of the church by the British Air Force in 1944.

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One seagull, some rocks and some big waves do their thing.

Best on black.

Sting - The Wild Wild Sea

The concentration camp Auschwitz was liberated by Russian troops on the 27th of January, 1945.
The photo shows a detail of the so-called Denkmal Güterbahnhof (freight station memorial) in Darmstadt, Germany.

The memorial was dedicated in 2004, in memory of the Jews and Sinti who were deported to the extermination camps from Darmstadt. In July 2006, the memorial was damaged by a violent attack by four male youths between 16 and 19 years of age, three sides of the glass cube were severely damaged. The memorial itself survived. The names of the people who were deported are engraved on the glass splinters (crystal night/night of the broken glass).