When you see those guns, it can mean only one thing...
You've arrived at the Imperial War Museum!
I thought it was funny that outside they had a piece of the Berlin Wall...here I am contemplating the 'strangeness' of it all that I live in Berlin, yet touched a piece of Berlin's history in London...hmm....
Inside the museum, with all of its collection of 'death machines'...hmm...sad, but true, how much we spend as far as time, energy, money, research, etc. to figure ways to kill each other. Sad, sad, sad....
They had a WWI Trench exhibit where it's supposed to give you a feeling of what that was like. UGH! What a miserable exisitence!!
Good advice!
This is the 'Arab headband' that 'Lawrence of Arabia' wore during his campaign against the Turks....
I thought this was really interesting. I didn't know that during the 1930's, Ireland AND the UK had its own little fascist organisations. This is the uniform of that the British fascists wore...
One of the world-famous Enigma cryptography machines that the Nazis used...
I thought this poster was interesting - be careful, you never know who's listening, i.e. Hitler and I think Goering...
If you can, hit this photo so you can read what it says. They are guidelines for British soldiers as occupiers of Germany. These are heelarious!!
This is a huge eagle that used to be on the main Nazi chancellery. A Soviet soldier gave it to the Brits in 1947....
(Again, it's odd to see so much of German history in London....a lot of things like this are gone in Berlin - erased as it were...)
Here is the V-1 or 'Doodlebug' rocket that the Nazis used during attacks on London. It's the ancestor to the Cruise missile....
This is the Nazi V-2 Rocket that slammed into London during WWII. It's the ancestor of the NASA space program and intercontinental ballistic missiles....nothing like offering Nazis freedom in the States in exchange for what they know, eh? Hmm....
