Island Ruegen – Baltic Sea – Sellin Pier

Rügen is a German island in the Baltic Sea. My mother lived there. Below: the Sellin Pier
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photo by Lotte Lee Møller, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT – click on the picture to visit her photo-stream on flickr
P.S.:
Many escaped from Rügen during Third Reich (fascism) and later during cold war (communism) to Denmark as a paradise of freedom; it’s sad, that actually new structures of aggressive nationalism are growing there again (and in many other countries too)…

related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCgen