Our friend enlisted in the army at age 17. He is seen here in an interview by a member of the church community of Wittlohe. This along with other exhibits, such as letters from soldiers, is meant to illustrate for the younger generation the pain and suffering of war and to serve as a warning.
You’ll remember from earlier posts the idyllic picture of the kayakers on the Aller River and also that thirteen English soldiers drowned in the river near Otersen in WW II. This photo is of the British crossing into Otersen.
The local church community, worried about climate change, in 2010 began planting trees, fully aware that this a very small gesture. Here is Willie with one of his daughters.
The house where we had dinner with her family last night, Monday, the 12th of August.
Back in Berlin, on the way to see the Brandenburg Gate, we examine our images on a screen in the subway station.
Built two hundred years ago the Brandenburg Gate stood for twenty-eight years between East and West Berlin.
Far in the background is the television tower—der lange Lulatsch—that was a symbol of east Berlin.
The Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Holocaust Memorial, is near the Brandenberg Gate. (More about this later.)