Germany's Baltic coast. A place of escape, of carefree summer holidays,
of spa towns and health retreats. A place where some of the darkest
stories of 20th Century German history played out.
Inspired by
his wife's collection of family photographs from the 1930s and her
memories of growing up on the Baltic coast in the GDR, Paul Scraton set
out to walk from Lu beck to the Polish border on the island of Usedom,
an area central to the mythology of a nation and bearing the heavy
legacy of trauma. Exploring a world of socialist summer camps, Hanseatic
trading towns long past their heyday and former shing villages
surrendered to tourism, Ghosts on the Shore unearths the stories,
folklore and contradictions of the coast, where politics, history and
personal memory merge to create a nuanced portrait of place.
Ghosts on the Shore : Travel's Along Germany's Baltic Coast - Paul Scraton
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