Sometimes I think that almost every contradiction may be viewed as The Conflict Between East and West.
“Seventeen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the cultural divide between former East Germans and West Germans is being laid bare at beach resorts,” reported Claudia Rach, Bloomberg News two years ago (see also The New York [...]
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East and West
Posted in History, Society, nudism, tagged Baltic coast, Baltic resorts, Baltic sea, beach, coast, DDR, DFK, east, East Germany, fkk, free, freedom, GDR, German, German naturist federation, Germany, International Naturist Federation, naked, nakedness, nature, naturism, naturist, nude, nude bathing, nudeness, nudism, nudist, nudity, price, property, restriction, unjust state, Unrechtsstaat on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Border conflict about nudism
Posted in History, nudism, tagged Ahlbeck, Baltic sea, beach, Bismarck, border, border signs, ceasefire, compromise, conflict, DDR, East Germany, fkk, GDR, German, Germany, Goethe, guardian, moral, naked, naturism, naturist, nude, nude bathing, nudeness, nudism, nudist, Nudist war, nudity, Poland, Polish, Schengen, Schengen Agreement, signs, sin, sinner, summer, sunbather, Swinemünde, tabloid, Usedom, war, weird, Świnoujście on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the 21st of December 2007 Poland entered into the Schengen agreement and soon afterwards the Usedom beach on the German-Polish border between the German and Polish towns of Ahlbeck and Świnoujście (Swinemünde), became the scene of … the ‘Nudist war‘. At least the German tabloid Bild depicted the local conflict as ‘Nudist war on [...]