Frustration Expressed in the Primitivism of Clumsy Strokes and Bright Colours
In the early 1970s, I conducted research in the Luapula Valley of Zambia. I was enchanted with the region, its people, and their kinship sys...
Jonathan Steinberg's Review of Ian Kershaw's New Book in the Globe and Mail
According to Jonathan Steinberge's review,Ian Kershaw, British historian of Hitler, wonders how Germans could have remained “loyal” and ...
Post-War German Condemnations: Unenlightened Propaganda rather than History
I was at a friend's place. She is older than I and remembers more of the past. She told me a beautiful story about wanting to attend a s...
Re: Nigel Cliff's "Holy War" - Another Nonsense NP 25.11.2011
I was astonished to find the National Post (a Canadian newspaper) publishing an excerpt of a version of history that, last time I looked, wa...
Let's not turn inward. Let's turn outward and face reality.
Reflection on a BBC Interview on Internet Radio: There is all this talk about nations turning inward, people turning inward, in light of the...
Aging is not for Cowards - a poem from a non-poet
My God, my God What have I not done, Not seen my own city, not been downtown. I'm in my home and look across -- lights sparkling on the ...
Berlin 2011: Symbols of Defeat
These monuments speak about German defeat and what it means to be defeated. The defeated -- although in this case it simply had to happen --...
Berlin Diary of 1995 Continued
January 9, 1995 Well, I joined Irving and took a round-trip of the city with his classmates from the Goethe Institute. The trip is part of t...
See Uwe Siemon-Netto's Blog
Berfore I continue with my Berlin 1995 Diary , I want to encourage anyone who is interested in the up-coming Royal Wedding and the historica...
Berlin Diary - January 3 to 7, 1995
January 3, 1995 We are in Berlin. The apartment shocked me on arrival. Like everything else, it too reminds me of WWII - primitive, cramped,...
Berlin Diary January 1 1995 - Continuation
January 1, 19 95 On the train from Bonn to Berlin we pass Löhne. I strain my eyes to see all I can see because one of my sisters lives here....
Berlin Diary 1995 - Prelude
Prelude The first time I returned to Germany was in 1990. The Berlin wall had fallen and I was wondering whether the wall to my past would n...
German Elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz and the Christian Vote
This time I disagree with Uwe Siemon-Netto’s analysis. It is not ANGST but REASON that caused the change in the election results of Baden-Wü...
Total Defeat: Post-World War II Refugees and Reflections about Libya
In the summer of 1945, when in all towns and villages the posters hung with the pictures and stories from Belsen and the crucial statement, ...
In Memorium: Eberhard Hahn (1939 - 2011) Rostock - Toronto
Each one of us is born into a time and a country. And its history – light or heavy – is a weight on our shoulders. --- Think about it. Eberh...
