‘Stumbling’ upon Berlin’s National Socialist past
Last week I returned from my second and (at the moment) final field trip of European Holocaust sites. Another gruelling itinerary and I returned home exhausted and in need of a break from Holocaust-related sites. I found that after visiting so many sites within the space of a month – reading so much atrocity-related material, […]
‘Sightseeing’ at Holocaust sites in Germany and Austria (Part 2)
As I said in the previous entry, my visit to my first concentration camp had been a somewhat anti-climatic experience for me. Perhaps in part because I had such high expectations about what I would feel on confronting these places I have read so much about over the years. We know so little about people’s […]
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