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Imposing

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The third image in the 5 day black and white challenge. It has been an age since I have processed three monochrome images in a row. I am really enjoying getting back into the different style of treating them in post.

And now a little history:

"Built in the mid 1930's to host a school for the National Political Institutes of Education ("Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten", NPEA, commonly abbreviated Napola). The goal of these schools was to raise a new generation for the political, military, and administrative leadership of Nazi Germany. Therefore, only boys and girls considered to be "racially flawless" were admitted to the schools.

Life in boys' Napolas was dominated by military discipline, and the education was very competitive and frequently brutal. Approximately one fifth of all cadets washed out or were sent home because of injuries sustained in training accidents.

The percentage of cadets who eventually entered the SS was 13%, much higher than the 1.8% in the general German population. Many of them were utilized as child soldiers, and were killed in the last months of the war.

After the war and the creation of the German Democratic Republic, the buildings were used as a school again, this time as Party School of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED), where future elites of the Party were educated.

The school closed with the German Reunification."

Taken on: April 26, 2014

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/8.0, 1/320 sec, 17mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens:	17.0 mm
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows)
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