@PRR Modeler , Thanks for kind words.
Your most welcomed, @Hungariantom .Very impressive work. It inspires me to be a better modeler. Thanks for taking us for the ride.
That made me laugh at myself. My mother told me that she and I saw the movie at the cinema when it came out (1957). I was 3 y.o. at the time. Apparently, we caught a train home, a good 30 min trip, and I would not stop whistling that march music.
There is a powerful movie about such death camps, called the The Railway Man (true story), he was also a railway modeler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railway_Man_(film)
Derailed
About the movie, The Railway Man, what also amazes me is that both men eventually befriended each other.
The story behind such existential experiences can be explained by Viktor Frankl.
I watched that movie last night. It was done very well.
Thanks for the book link.
I know the words to this, unfortunately it's the British Army version, and not repeatable on a public forum.
Well, the words I know are "clean"--literally....I know the words to this, unfortunately it's the British Army version, and not repeatable on a public forum.
I've a few references to this idea of the original bridge being made of wood, BUT I have yet to see a photo of that wood bridge??Just to clarify, the original bridge built by the POWs was not made of steel and concrete, but of wood from the forest. The steel one was built after, the original wooden bridge built by the POWs. It was the steel bridge, which replaced and put into service at the time, which got targeted and bombed.
I have not researched about the steel bridge, only what came up while researching the wooden one.Thanks Derailed,...photo even with a train on it.
I don't even recall seeing that in those museums, but then they had LOTS of WWll photos, so perhaps I missed them
I think I remember seeing something about the difficulty they had getting those steel trusses (original ones) to that site?