Le Bunker De La Rochelle

Under the streets of La Rochelle, a former wartime bunker holds some surprising secrets.

Underwater Camera Finds Mysterious Car in Sunken World War II Ship

'Why is there a car on this boat?'

Tuesday, April 22 – Writeworks.UK

Monsters Plague Japan. But What Do They Mean?

Alt, who loved toys, robots and monsters, described the otaku as one “who consumes something that eventually consumes him,” but he defended the advent of the superfan. He saw in it a way to cope with a loss of agency in an increasingly complex world. Alt felt it was natural that people, when faced with different forms of heavily mediated reality, should want to retreat into fantasy spaces of their own making. Speaking about the ways Japan blurs lines between childhood and adulthood, the feminine and masculine, he used the word “infantilism,” which made his wife bristle. Playfulness, she protested, was

Why the Dutch still honour Canadians, 80 years after their liberation from Germany | CBC Radio

Canadian veteran Jim Parks is getting ready to visit the Netherlands again, 80 years after playing a role in liberating the country from German occupation. And he can expect a warm welcome.

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Iconic illegal photos made during World War II get Unesco status - DutchNews.nl

A collection of 8,000 photographs made illegally by a collective of Amsterdam photographers during World War II has been added to the Unesco Netherlands Memory of the World Register. The collective consisted of a core group of 14 photographers who called themselves the Ondergedoken Camera (the underground camera) and who aimed to record the consequences of the German occupation. Helped by amateur photographers, couriers, and other resistance members, they set out to photograph illegal weapon transports, sabotage actions, people who...