Munich Photos 3

The Tower at the Olympic Park.
I don't know what sporting events were held in the Olympic Hall in 1972, but they hold concerts and other events there now.
Munich from over 600 feet.
The infamous Olympic Village. I believe it is now housing for Müncheners. It was down there on September 5, 1972 that a group of eight Arab terrorist bastards kidnapped and killed the entire Israeli team. Gee, Arab terrorists killing innocent people. That seems somewhat familiar.
The Olympic Stadium. Until recently it was the home pitch for Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich soccer clubs until the Allianz Arena was built for the 2002 World Cup.
The BMW facility in Munich. Over there a BMW is just a domestic car.
The old town.
The Nymphenburg Palace.
For some reason there is a piano in the tower. Elton John played it once.
I'm sure no one needs an explanation of where this is. It is the site of the 1972 Olympic miniature golf competition. Who could forget the controversy in the final when the Spanish player was disqualified after being accused of double-tapping the ball on the 15th hole, handing the gold medal to the Finns? Boy, I know I'll never forget it.
SoccaFive Arena is a building in Olympic Park where people can play indoor 5v5 soccer. There were a few groups of kids having birthday parties at the facility.
Some art gallery had some mannequins in window displays. This is George W. Bush and Tony Blair. I can guess why Bush is dressed as a king, but why is Blair Batman?
I visited the Valentin Musäum. Karl Valentin is the fellow on the left.
Valentin was a German comedian from the early 20th century whose humor was fairly absurdist. This is a case in point. It is a snow sculpture, now melted.
The whole museum was in German, so I couldn't read many of the humorous things on display, but this one I got without translation. It is a collection of chamber pots. The one on the top left is for normal occasions. The fur-lined one on the second shelf is for winter. Get it?
The Königsplatz was designed at the command of Ludwig I and is a grand plaza with impressive classical structures like this, the Propyläen. Then centuries later along came Adolf and his brown-shirted pals. During the reign of the Nazis, the Königsplatz was used as a site for mass party rallies.
This is the Führerbau, Hitler's office building. It was here that Adolf Hitler, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement which handed over a big chunk of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Peace in our time, eh Neville? What an fool. The building now houses a music school or something.
The Nazis had built two honor temples, the burial place of the sixteen Nazis who had been killed in the failed coup on November 9, 1923. The Allies razed the temples after the war, but the foundations still exist. Here is one next to the Führerbau.
This is the other honor temple foundation next to the old Nazi Party administration building.
The several blocks surrounding the Karolinenplatz were where the NSDAP had many of their offices. In some of these buildings along Karlstrasse housed the party treasurer's offices, press offices and youth organization offices.
The America Haus. This is where the NSDAP audit and accounts office used to be. Most of the building is new, but it looks like the first floor dates back to the time of the Third Reich. The America Haus used to be in the Führerbau building.
The excavated ruins of the Brown House where the Fuhrer's deputy and staff had offices.
Not too far from the the place that was the center of Nazi madness is this memorial to the victims of the Nazi Party.
There are statues to Maximillians and Ludwigs all over the place. Here is another one. A statue of Maximillian I.
There is a pedestrian street off of the Marienplatz with lots of shops and such.
I didn't want to mess around with a restaurant for dinner, so I just grabbed a fish sandwich (a backfische baguette) at Nordsee, which is a seafood store with a little restaurant counter inside.
When people think about Germany, invariably thoughts turn to sausages. So here they are. Mmmm, sausages.
I knew the Allianz Arena would be lit up at night, so I took the train out there to get a photo. I also found where the ticket offices were for when I would go to a match on Sunday.
The stadium is lit up either in white, red (for Bayern Munich) or blue (for TSV 1860 Munich). By the time I got back to the train station, the stadium had turned red.
In Britain, some of the tabloid newspapers feature topless Page Three girls. In Bild, they stick the beauties right on the front page. (I have placed little black rectangles over the nice lady's nippular areas to make it a little less NSFW.)