by finn ballard | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog
Former East Germany’s famous Ampelmann (pedestrian traffic lights figure) can be seen in its feminine counterpart in Dresden!
by finn ballard | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
This month’s book is the lengthy but utterly gripping “Travellers in the Third Reich” (2017) by Julia Boyd, a chronicle of experiences of visitors (including Charlie Chaplin and Lloyd George) to Nazi Germany. This marvellous read speaks for itself...
by finn ballard | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog
During the rebuilding process of the Saxon city of Dresden, these darker stones were salvaged from the rubble of the original church (destroyed during WWII) and relocated in exactly their original positions.
by finn ballard | Oct 18, 2018 | Blog
This month, let’s discuss Rosa Luxemburg, whose life was cut short by right-wing troops in early 1919. Born in 1871 into a Polish Jewish family, Luxemburg grew up to become a Marxist theorist, peace activist and revolutionary socialist who would go from the SPD...
by finn ballard | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog
A detail of the incredible Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park.
by finn ballard | Oct 4, 2018 | Blog
A break from Nazis and Stasi for this month, to recommend you a book which I devoured in two sittings during my recent trip to Belgrade: John Waller’s ‘A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518’. During the...
