Freyenhain

Brünnhilde the Valkyrie by Arthur Rackham

Helmarshausen, Germany 1920s

"A rich and powerful soul not only gets over painful and even terrible losses, deprivations, robberies, and insults: it actually leaves such dark infernos in possession of still greater plenitude and power."

— Nietzsche

Hand and a half sword, southern Germany, circa 1540

from The Dresden State Art Collection

Vision of St. Hubert, 1892 - oil on canvas. — Wilhelm Carl Räuber (German, 1849-1926)

hunter in the forest - caspar david friedrich

The Luftwaffe pilots making the ritual of burning fear.

Freikorps collar tabs and insignia

Tübingen, Germany 1875

Austro-Hungarian soldiers pose with their handmade trench maces atop a mountain on the Italian front, c. 1917

Ehrenbreitstein, Germany 1900