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Road Trip

Road Trip

We hold our thumbs up to the sun

And helpful drivers take us far

So grateful for each stopping car

We smile and chat to everyone.

 

We take the ferry to the coast

Through Belgian roads we make our way.

In Luxembourg the second day

Quaint towers and bridges charm us most.

 

That long road north through rock and moor

Twp German students take us on

For...

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1964   Europe   Germany   Hitch Hiker   Jungfrau   memories   Rhyme   Rhythm

Eight Decades On

This parable is used here to portray Ribbentrop's mistake – especially his fatal misjudgment of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, namely Operation Barbarossa.

On this day, eighty years ago, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces, marking the end of a reign of terror that cost millions their lives. Yet today, as right-wing extremism rises again across Europe and beyond—w...

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1945   8 May   AfD   democracy   Europe   extremism   fascism   Germany   history   Nazism   never again   poem   politics   remembrance   resistance   right-wing   surrender   warning   WWII   youth

Poem for Germany

Deutschland, Deutschland

über the moon

you won’t be sober

any time soon.

 

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football   Germany   humour   world cup

BRICK WALL

BRICK WALL

 

 

This high brick wall borders East and West, a Cold War frontier that symbolises the divisions between two mindsets. A time of paranoia and of being taken away in the night, soldiers only following orders, you’re going to the East, not to be seen again as you’re an enemy of the state, Stassi style.

For those who resist and fight there is only one option, eliminate ...

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berlin wall   cold war   death   east v west   germany   guns   history   life

BRICK WALL

 

BRICK WALL

 

 

This high brick wall borders East and West, a Cold War frontier that symbolises the divisions between two mindsets. A time of paranoia and of being taken away in the night, soldiers only following orders, you’re going to the East, not to be seen again as you’re an enemy of the state, Stassi style.

For those who resist and fight there is only one option, elim...

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20th century   berlin   brick wall   cold war   germany   history   world wars

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