Version 2 is a big improvement. Sometimes we read or hear about these problems in the dutch news channels. The concept of liberated zones is new to me. Is it that bad? I received a tip recently to visit east germany for holidays, I would prefer a detailed nogo map for such adventures...
Toine On 26 June 2010 10:25, eckinator <eckina...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/6/26 Toine <to...@repiuk.nl>: >> >> Interesting and good capture (nice or very nice wouldn't combine with >> the subject). My eye is attracted by the black hole in the middle, no >> idea how to change that maybe slightly change in cropping. Also >> interesting they painted two other countries black. > > Thank you Toine, I'll see into the cropping. The black areas are > actually in part a mistake of the artist - the one on the left would > represent the Netherlands and is blacked out I believe only for > delineation. The one on the right is East Germany, the former GDR that > 95% of the No Go areas would have been in. There were at the time (and > still are now) places under practical control of Neonazi gangs who > called these areas "nationally liberated zones". There have been since > then many many crackdowns to drive them back but there is also a > rather high degree of tolerance if not agreement among East Germans > who have very bad employment opportunities and infrastructure and find > it so easy to blame migrants. There is also the problem of funding > cuts especially with regard to education and leisure opportunitites > for youths; these are then attracted by neonazi groups who have all > that, camping, BBQs, concerts, youth centers etc. so it is really a > sign of government failure rather than social failure. > Cheers > Ecke > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
