Monatsarchive: September 2019

Den Opfern der Kriege 1914 bis 1918 + 1939 bis 1945 und der Gewaltherrschaft 1933 bis 1945 These inscriptions strike me sometimes as perverse. What I’ve been noticing in addition, and more interestingly, is that the dates 1933 and 1945 … Weiterlesen →

Buses unload and tourists of various nationalities head in. Americans are loud as always and everywhere. The museum is carefully constructed with angles askew, giving the impression perhaps of visiting a ruin. It is an artful ruin, however. The advertising … Weiterlesen →

1994 was when the last Russian troops left Germany. There is a dog show this morning. From the tribune where Nazi officials viewed Leni Riefenstal-filmed troop formations I can clearly hear down on the field an announcer calling the line-up … Weiterlesen →

This is where Elisabeth von Dyck was killed.

Some of these just seem so lame…

First KZ liberated by American forces

BBC: The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a diplomatic row. Brian Hook, head of the department’s Iran Action Group, emailed the … Weiterlesen →

If ‘programme’, ‘plan’, or ‘design’ in the context of Nazi anti-Jewish policy are to have real meaning, then they ought to imply something more than the mere conviction, however fanatically held, that somehow the Jews would be ‘got rid of’ … Weiterlesen →