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• Germany’s Beelitz Heilstätten: A Crumbling Abandoned Wartime Hospital

  
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  The trees limbs were heavy with freshly fallen snow providing a peaceful backdrop on this entirely eerie place. I had made my way outside of Berlin to the little community of Beelitz on this snowy Easter weekend to photograph Beelitz Heilstätten, a sanatorium for tuberculosis treatment methods in the early 20th ...
  6 days ago

• Review: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

  
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  I picked this novel up after hearing about it from Helen’s blog and although her review wasn’t the most complimentary it sounded like the kind of story I’d like to read. My endless love of German history, particularly wartime, meant I had to give Alone in Berlin  a go. A summary: Berlin, 1940, and the ...
  1 week ago

• Futuristic East German Workers Safety Pod

  
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  According to Pour 15 Minutes dAmour , -- and why would a website with that name lie? -- this is an East German lifeguard cabin on the Baltic coast: Reminded me of something...  
  1 week ago

• Socialist University Online

  
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  From 1958 to 1989, Socialist University, published by the University of Jena, was the premier organ of the East German university system. Its entire archive -- also searchable! -- is online here . Of course, its all in German, but Ill try to translate some passages here and there as time permits.
  1 week ago

• Slice of Life in the Former East

  
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  Just a bit of humdrum reality filmed before the fall of the Wall. I love the tram drivers mullet and tram-plant. Unlike most YouTube comment threads, the one to this video is sort of interesting -- people discuss whether the person who made this video could have been punished by East German authorities.
  2 weeks ago

• Locust Capitalism Made in Germany

  
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  It seems appropriate now and then to remind everyone that the leaders of Germany-- land of the gentle, caring social state (g)! protectress of human rights (g)! denouncer (g) of anglo-american style turbo-capitalism! -- continues to demand policies that have led to mass human suffering in countries in Southern ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kickstarter film campaign reveals unknown holocaust heroes

  
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  WNN Breaking (WNN) Sherborn, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: A new Kickstarter campaign is working to bring history and human rights to the table as the grandson of two heroes who rescued Jews and non-Jews alike during Germany’s Nazi-lead holocaust is hoping to raise money to set up a wide distribution base ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Peter Sodann Library of East German Books is Now Open

  
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  After the collapse of East Germany, the question arose of what to do with all those East German books. East Germany had many publishing houses and a quite well-developed educational system. Nevertheless, a typical East German biography of Bismarck, say, was unlikely to be competitive with its West German (or ...
  4 weeks ago

• "Draughts of pure thought from the fountain-head of some abstruse philosopher"

  
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  Although I have been hitherto mainly a historian of crime, violence, criminal justice and policing , Im in the midst of a reorientation of sorts toward something that Im still working out a concise description for but involves a mixture of cultural, intellectual and religious history focused on the period of the ...
  4 weeks ago

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