desafortunadamente nadie hablaba español y sólo algunos hablaban muy poco inglés, así que no pudimos averiguar mucho sobre esta exposición, las personas que transportaban los carros iban vestidos con atuendos militares, y eso, aunado al escenario le daba un toque más real.
Investigando en internet encontré un artículo del Daily Mail muy interesante, en el que se habla de los "cementerios de carros" de la segunda guerra mundial, se les llama cementerios porque cuando terminó la guerra muchos soldados antes de regresar a sus respectivos países fueron a resguardarlos en algunos bosques mientras arreglaban cómo transportarlos desde sus países (sobre todo de EEUU) pero en el caso de los estadounidenses, el gobierno se negó a pagar el costo de transporte por ser muy alto, tampoco ningún soldado quiso pagar, dejando todos esos vehículos abandonados en los bosques; debido a esto, mucha gente empezó a quitarles piezas para arreglar o armar sus propios vehículos, ya que salía muy caro comprarlas. En la actualidad sólo quedan las carcasas alineadas, cubiertas de plantas y todos estos lugares se han convertido en atractivos turísticos y parajes ideales para sesiones de fotografía urbana.
Volviendo a la exposición, me parece algo sumamente positivo que hayan rescatado todos esos vehículos y estén haciendo esa exposición itinerante ya que positiva o negativamente es parte crucial de la historia mundial.
He aquí unas cuantas fotos tomadas en esa exposición.
We were in Belgium so we decided to go to Brugge for the weekend, a gorgeous and wonderful small city, we spent the night and in the next morning we went for a walk to see the city, when we reached the historic centre (a very impressive medieval plaza surrounded by gothic buildings kept in pristine condition) and found a pleasant surprise, there was a very interesting exhibition going on of vehicles from World War 2, all the vehicles are in excellent conditions, and all of them working! (they drive on them from one town to the next one).
Unfortunately nobody spoke Spanish and just some of them a little English, so we couldn't find out much about this exhibition, all the people were dressed on military attire, and with that landscape it felt like you traveled back in time.
Searching for some information about it on the internet, I came across a very interesting article from the Daily mail, it's about all the cars left behind by many soldiers from different countries after the war ended and how those places had become a paradise for urban photographers and tourists alike; those vehicles were stored in some forests by the soldiers while they find a way to retrieved them from their countries specially from the US, in those cases the government didn't want to pay for their transportation and neither the soldiers, so all those cars were left there to rot, so people from around those forests took advantage and dismantled them to fix their own vehicles (parts were very expensive after the war) you can still see all those car cases aligned filled with plants and creating an interesting landscape.
Going back to the exhibition, I think is great they are doing it, besides is educational is also amazing to see all those vehicles exactly how the look at that time, for good or for worse it is an important part of world history.
Here are some pictures I took that day:
Yendo de regreso hacia Alemania, nos encontramos con el convoy de la exhibición por la carretera, fue emocionante verlos circulando juntos.
Going back to Germany we saw the exhibition convoy on the road, it was so exciting to see them rolling together on a single line.
