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Living Museum Online – German History
Ever wanted a close look at a CARE package, a pair of POW trousers or other artifacts? The German Historical …Continue reading →
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Postwar Christmas
Anyone who’s ever been to a Christmas market knows how important the holiday season is in Germany. After World War …Continue reading →
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Tannbach: German TV’s mediocre take on postwar history
Shame doesn’t make good TV. Shock either. Yet those are the basic emotions in the new miniseries about postwar Germany …Continue reading →
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Haunted by the past
I usually don’t write about modern Germany, but there’s been a development lately I can’t ignore. In Dresden, people have …Continue reading →
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Propaganda films
We’d like to think propaganda is the brainwashing a non-democratic country does to its people, or false information it tries …Continue reading →
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The German Myth Nobody Wants Debunked
There’s a fascinating argument going on in Germany right now. It digs at one of modern Germany’s founding myths. In …Continue reading →
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Liberated or Conquered
April is an important month for much of Germany when it comes to World War II. The general surrender was …Continue reading →
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The End
It’s been 70 years since the official end of WW2 in Europe. A good time to be grateful. Western Europe …Continue reading →
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1945 in pictures and words
Today I was happy to see Der Spiegel’s English version of its beautiful multimedia series on the fate of select …Continue reading →
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Filming the Holocaust
Most of us have seen film footage of the concentration camps. Just the mention of them conjures up in our …Continue reading →
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Unexploded Bombs
In German, an unexploded bomb is called a blindgänger, and they’re just about everywhere, even now. They still take their …Continue reading →
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Anything is possible
It’s natural to feel dismay at scenes of devastation, but what about hope? Cologne was about 75% destroyed in WW2, …Continue reading →
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1946 and how it changed the world
I don’t know how I missed this one. Last year the journalist and historian Victor Sebestyen gave us his take …Continue reading →
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War criminals move in
I’ve always considered Spandau Prison a bit like something in “news of the weird.” On July 18, 1947, the seven …Continue reading →
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Slave labor and living history
Here in Germany, my kids aren’t old enough to learn about the Nazi era in school yet. So I recently …Continue reading →
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Postwar photos for everyone
A few years back, the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) announced it was donating tens of thousands of photos to Wikimedia …Continue reading →
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The Girl and the Dwarf King, or a POW’s fairy tale
I have two small daughters, and I can be a bit sappy about that, so I couldn’t resist a post …Continue reading →
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Help! Where in #Germany is this?
Does anyone have any idea where this photo was taken? The man in the photo is the father of one …Continue reading →
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Wives and the postwar husband problem
I’ve written before about how changed German women were after the war. But what happened to the relationships between wives …Continue reading →
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That’s how it happens, folks
I’ve kept this blog #USElection2016 -free, but today I have to say something. Donald Trump is not Hitler, of course, …Continue reading →
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