The former concentration camp site at Bergen-Belsen might not be as prominent as Dachau, but it is nonetheless one of the biggest memorials in Germany. On top of that, famous Anne Frank was murdered here. I visited Bergen-Belsen Memorial and…
Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City also calls itself A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Even though I feel that there is much more Jewish Heritage than that, I had this place rather up on my list when…
Esterwegen Concentration Camp Memorial
During the Nazi regency in Germany, the Emslandlager (Emsland Camps) was a group of concentration and detention camps in the Emsland region, Northwest of the country. Nowadays, the former Concentration Camp Esterwegen has been turned into a memorial site. I visited the…
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2021
It is time for the final posting of the years, simply named The Best Ones 2021. After looking into my favorite songs and my favorite albums and EPs of the year, it is time to have a look back. I…
Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
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 Concentration Camp
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…
Dutch Freedom Museum (Groesbeek)
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…
The Myth of Germania – A Berlin Underground Exhibition
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…