This might interest my fellow history nerds. Wir waren so frei is a project collecting pictures and eyewitness reports about the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond. The website exists in both [german] and [englishThere are nearly 2400 pictures and 34 videos. You can browse by topic, location or click through users' favourites. It's incredibly neat ( Read more... )

Go read this post by selenak. She wrote the entry I've been fiddling with for the last month. She managed to put into words the significance of this day, November 9th, for Germany. The best and worst of German history in the 20th century happened on this day ( Read more... )

According to Hans-Werner Sinn, the president of the Ifo-Institute (one of Germany's largest economic research institutes), blaming bank managers for the current financial crisis is just like antisemitism. Also, National Socialism has its root in the Great Depression.

"In jeder Krise wird nach Schuldigen gesucht, nach Sündenböcken", sagte er dem ( Read more... )

via chopchica:

On InsaneJournal there exists a Harry Potter RPG called Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht, you say? Do they know what that word means? Yes, they do. From their FAQ:

This name sounds familiar. What does Kristallnacht mean ( Read more... )