Remnants of War – Hidden in Plain Sight
“That’s a covered-up Swastika isn’t it?” I thought to myself. After a quick check on Google…yup, indeed it is. The […]
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Germany
Remnants of War – Kindertransport Memorial Berlin
Berlin is dotted with memorials and plaques, but this memorial at Bahnhof Friedchstraße is one of the most poignant, as
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Remnants of War – German Resistance Memorial Centre
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler. Fittingly, yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending
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Remnants of War – Hochbunker Pallasstraße
The Hochbunker on Pallasstraße in Berlin is a 4-storey high bunker, which was built by Soviet prisoners of war and
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Traces of War – Berlin Battle Damage Tour
Berlin battle damage! This afternoon, the Berlin IC walked around Schöneberg in Berlin, looking at some of the remaining evidence
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Remnants of War – German WW2 Board Game & Hagen’s Air Raid Bunker
Fancy a Second World War German board game night? On a recent tour of the WW2 bunker in Hagen, I
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Remnants of War – Potsdam’s Soviet Cemetery
The 8th of May is celebrated as “VE Day” in Western Europe, but for the Russians, the 9th of May
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Stolperstein Sunday – Martin Cohn
A regime’s revenge metered out upon the innocent. On the 18th of May 1942, a Berlin Jewish-Communist resistance group carried
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Traces of War – Moltkebrücke Berlin
Moltkebrücke, an unassuming bridge located just a stone’s throw from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof, played a key role in the final days
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Stolperstein Sunday – Richard & Alfred Tworoger
Father & Son Stolpersteine stories. Usually Stolpersteine give only the basic facts about a victim; such as their name, year
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