I came across this picture in a book, and thought that it looked alot like a barcode.

The Party Rally at Nuremberg, 1938. Anit-aircraft searchlights projects a 'Dome of Lights' into the sky

It looked like an interesting story so I did some research.

The "Cathedral of Lights" was designed by Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, and is one of the most powerful images from Nazi Germany.

Did the Nazi's use the searchlights as a symbol of power?...... as a type of mind control?



....or are the "Cathedral of Lights" the mark of the beast?....

Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer; [1]; pronounced [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ( listen); March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry",[a] he accepted responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for crimes of the Nazi regime. His level of involvement in the persecution of the Jews and his level of knowledge of the Holocaust remain matters of dispute.

When Troost died on January 21, 1934, Speer effectively replaced him as the Party's chief architect. Hitler appointed Speer as head of the Chief Office for Construction, which placed him nominally on Hess's staff.[32]

One of Speer's first commissions after Troost's death was the Zeppelinfeld stadium—the Nürnberg parade grounds seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda masterpiece Triumph of the Will. This huge work was capable of holding 340,000 people.[33] The tribune was influenced by the Pergamon Altar in Anatolia, but was magnified to an enormous scale.[34] Speer insisted that as many events as possible be held at night, both to give greater prominence to his lighting effects and to hide the individual Nazis, many of whom were overweight.[35]

Speer surrounded the site with 130 anti-aircraft searchlights. This created the effect of a "cathedral of light" or, as it was called by British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson, a "cathedral of ice".[36] Speer described this as his most beautiful work, and as the only one that stood the test of time.

The idea was disliked by the Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring, because the number of searchlights represented most of Germany's strategic reserve, but Hitler overruled him, suggesting that it was a useful piece of disinformation. "If we use them in such large numbers for a thing like this, other countries will think we're swimming in searchlights."

British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson said that it "was both solemn and beautiful... like being in a cathedral of ice."

Adolf Hitler poses in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background, one day after the formal capitulation of France, on June 23, 1940. He is accompanied by Albert Speer, German Reichsminister of armaments and Hitler's chief architect, left, and Arno Breker, professor of visual arts in Berlin and Hitler's favorite sculptor, right.

Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
reply to post by isyeye

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I did not know, thanks for bringing it onboard. My first reaction was "who here reads barcode please?" But then I read that the lights were evenly spaced, so doesn't that nullify the barcode premise? The first pic does appear to have an unevenness about it.

The infamous Auschwitz tattoo began as an IBM number.

In August 1943, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland, arrived at Auschwitz. He was among a group of 400 inmates, mostly Jews. First, a doctor examined him briefly to determine his fitness for work. His physical information was noted on a medical record. Second, his full prisoner registration was completed with all personal details. Third, his name was checked against the indices of the Political Section to see if he would be subjected to special punishment. Finally, he was registered in the Labor Assignment Office and assigned a characteristic five-digit IBM Hollerith number, 44673.

The five-digit Hollerith number was part of a custom punch card system devised by IBM to track prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, including the slave labor at Auschwitz.