The same faith which applies to Oswiecim in Poland (better known under the former German name Auschwitz) is also valid, maybe even more, for Brzezinka. As Birkenau, about one million people were systematically murdered in the gas chambers of the Concentration…
Auschwitz is a town’s name (adopted to German) which you typically link with murder, cruelty, state-organized mass killings, injustice. A place which is unfortunately not unique in history, but definitely one of the most depressing ones. I have been to…
Driving a model landscape or a large model train landscape in Germany is a difficult business: Even if you do a good job – if one compares you to the Hamburg Miniatur Wunderland, you are lost. The best rated attraction…
There was a duplicate reason to visit the European Hansa Museum in Lübeck in late July 2021: apart from the amazing main exhibition, which I reviewed in a separate posting, they drove the temporary exhibition Hanse Steinreich. The name means “Hansa…
Not only because auf an early 1990’s video game, I am deeply interested in the Hansa and its history. Thus, it has been a no-brainer deciding what to do during an a couple of hours stay in the former Hansa…
As I said in other posting, I really enjoy being in Sharjah and feel the vibe of the city and the emirate, which is so different to Dubai. The more, I have been glad to visit some more of the…
A very interesting rebranding: when I started to explore museums in the nearby Netherlands, the Dutch Freedom Museum in Groesbeek has still been called Bevrijdingsmuseum – Liberation museum. With its 2019 rebranding to Vrijheidsmuseum, it is putting a stronger focus…
It is almost needless to say that Adolf Hitler was obsessed with megalomanic ideas. Apart from ruling the world and mass murders, here also recklessly drove some hard-to-believe plans in very domestic affairs. One of these plans was Germania, the transition of…