Posts Tagged ‘third Reich’
German-Russian Museum at Berlin-Karlshorst
Marcel Krueger heads to the German-Russian Museum at Berlin-Karlshorst to explore some memories of wartime... Berlin lay in ruins as the planes landed. From all over Europe, the vanquishers and the vanquished of World War Two came. Nine days after Adolf Hitler had shot himself and the Red Army defeated the last defenders of the capital of the Third Reich, Axis and Allies converged here to accept the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Eisenhower’s [...]
In Heaven, Underground: Weissensee’s Jewish Cemetery
Giulia Pines reviews Britta Wauer’s “Im Himmel, unter der Erde”, a new film about Weissensee's Jüdischer Friedhof... Nobody is neutral on cemeteries. Maybe you’re the kind of person who can’t resist visiting them all, browsing through the names and dates like titles on a bookshelf. Or perhaps you can’t pass one without holding your breath, remnants of childhood superstitions still fresh in your mind. Either way, those slabs of stone always seem to elicit a reaction, and [...]
Berlinica – books about Berlin
Carlijn Potma chats to Eva Schweitzer, a native Berliner who has set up a publishing company dedicated solely to publishing books about Berlin... What inspired you to start a publishing company focused on books from and about Berlin? I covered Berlin as a journalist for a long time, even before the Wall fell; when I came to New York, I noticed quickly that Berlin was a major topic. Also, I was always delivering information from America to Germany, and I felt it was about time to do it the [...]
Book Review: Berlin by David Clay Large
Paul Scraton takes a closer look at David Clay Large's fantastic history of the city... “What Potsdamer Platz resembles is an edge city; one of those private, development-driven urbanoid clusters that have sprouted up across the American landscape in recent years. It is reassuring that the new Potsdamer Platz is notably without nationalist expressions. The downside of this is that the place could be anywhere. Like other edge cities, it occupies a kind of nebulous international airport [...]
City Lit: Ten Berlin Books
Berlin has been the inspiration and provided the setting for many novels. Berlin based writer Madhvi Ramani rounds up ten of her favourites... 10. Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis “Ever since arriving in Berlin I’d become a professional in lost time. It was impossible to account for all the hours. The hands on clocks and watches jumped ahead or lagged behind indiscriminately. The city ran its own chronometric scale.” Tatiana is a Mexican in Berlin who flits from one job to [...]
