Yes, that move is reckoned to have preserved it from the worst of the air raids. I'm told you can get a good view of the Soviet War Memorial from the top.
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Berlin Diary
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You can, but the exciting view is up and down the axis.
That was an intentional pun, wasn't it?
And the nazis build on etage more.
I stand first Sat. Nov 13, 1989 on this place.
1999 and 2000 by the "Love Parade", 2016 CSD.
Jul 08, 2000
Jul 23, 2016
Naraku
Draconarius
Also a popular spot for angels.
A good thing they moved it. The area around the Reichstag was bombed heavily.
Tree didn't do it and his dad was in the Pacific in WWII!!!
Naraku
Unforgettable films by Wim Wenders, true masterpieces.
- Der Himmel Über Berlin - (Wings Of Desire) 1987
- In Weiter Ferne, So Nah! - (Faraway, So Close!) 1993, with the wonderful Nastassja Kinski
Top-Cat
Repertor
Artifex Imaginum
Christmas 1939, the eve of the war.
It's in France but it must have been the same in all Europe.
Here are 2 Christmas carols, recorded by Tino Rossi at the end of November 1939. France was then in full "drôle de guerre"(*), and one can imagine that many families sent this disc in their Christmas package for their soldier at the front. In the video, images of the filmed news of the time, showing how it was Christmas 1939. With a little song of Josephine Baker for the soldiers at the end.
(*) The Phoney War (French: drôle de guerre; German: Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front. It began with the declaration of war by the western Allies (the United Kingdom and France) against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, and ended with the German attack on France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940.
It's in France but it must have been the same in all Europe.
Here are 2 Christmas carols, recorded by Tino Rossi at the end of November 1939. France was then in full "drôle de guerre"(*), and one can imagine that many families sent this disc in their Christmas package for their soldier at the front. In the video, images of the filmed news of the time, showing how it was Christmas 1939. With a little song of Josephine Baker for the soldiers at the end.
(*) The Phoney War (French: drôle de guerre; German: Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front. It began with the declaration of war by the western Allies (the United Kingdom and France) against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, and ended with the German attack on France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940.
Boccaccio
Magistrate
May I say that your scene-setting in these early chapters almost convinces a reader that you *were* in Berlin in 1936.
It's a nice departure from the countless Gestapo stories that begin and end in a grim dungeon.
Not that there isn't a place for grim dungeons, as our lovely young visitor seems quite likely to find out in the chapters to come...
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One explanation for her Knowledge from this time
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/barb-time-travels.5645/
Seriously, it's one of the best stories we've had,
certainly way ahead of the usual Nazi-porn stuff out there.
Boccaccio
Magistrate
Just poking around in this very long thread and saw this reference to Fulton, Missouri, which even today is a small town of only 12,000 people.
But if its name sounds familiar it's because it was the site of a famous speech. In March of 1946, after the war, but at the very dawn of the Cold War, Winston Churchill spoke at Westminster College in Fulton. In what came to be called the "Sinews of Peace" speech, he spoke this sentence, whose most famous phrase resonated around the world for half a century.
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."
It was at Fulton, Mo. that the phrase "iron curtain" was first used.
Why did Churchill speak at Fulton? Probably because President Harry Truman, who was in attendance that day, was a Missourian.
Churchill — with some prodding from President Harry Truman, a Missourian — came to Fulton to accept an honorary degree from Westminster College.
Boccaccio
Magistrate
{From Episode 17}
Varvara Mohr, eh? The plot thickens.
I'm probably throwing out ideas that others have already expressed, (or have already been disproven!) but this brief intelligence report offers a couple of intriguing possibilities. 'Barb Moore' came to Berlin to study German 'modern art' among other things. And of course the Nazis regarded German expressionism and related artistic movements as "degenerate," the product of Jews and Communists. One of the leading German expressionists from the 1920's on was Alexander Mohr, who, among other things was on very good terms with Picasso, but also became the husband of the niece of Otto Kahn, the German/Jewish-American investment banker, who for a time was second only to JP Morgan among American financiers and was also a noted patron of the arts. If the name Otto Kahn sounds vaguely familiar, you may remember him from Stephen Birmingham's "Our Crowd," the non-fiction best-seller about the great Jewish families of New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mohr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hermann_Kahn
The second fascinating possibility that occurs to me now that 'Barb Moore' seems to be Varvara Mohr, is that one Robert Mohr was a well-known officer in the Gestapo, best known for his interrogation, identification of the leaders of the "White Rose" in 1943. The White Rose was a group of young German intellectuals who opposed the Nazis, risking their lives to print and distribute leaflets about the horrors of the Nazi regime. Sadly, as with the July 20 plotters of the following year, most of the activists were tried and executed. Their heroic story deserves to be re-told, just as the film "Valkyrie" re-told the story of the July 20 plot. War and Remembrance, after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mohr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
It's very likely that 'Varvara Mohr' has no connection whatever to either of the semi-famous Mohrs of the Hitler era, but who knows?
Regardless of whether they are or not, the layers of intrigue in "Berlin Diary" are commendable.
The name Varvara Mohr came to me from elsewhere, but you are right about Robert Mohr. Maybe I should have thought of him.
