by finn ballard | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog
I feel so lucky to live in such a beautiful area of Berlin! Rathaus Schöneberg is just beautiful.
by finn ballard | Sep 20, 2018 | Blog
Since this month heralds the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift (more on that below), the hero has to be Colonel Gail Halvorsen of the US Army Air Forces. On approach to Tempelhof Airport, Halvorsen’s signal of dipped wings was the alert for...
by finn ballard | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog
A few months ago, I had a fascinating wander through the Haus des Rundfunks, the world’s oldest broadcasting unit, active since 1929!
by finn ballard | Sep 6, 2018 | Blog
Several of you recommended this title to me in the last few months, so I am especially pleased to suggest our book of the month for June as Philippe Sand’s ‘East West Street’ (2017). A mixture of family memoir with a compelling legal history, the...
by finn ballard | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog
A detail of a statue at the German Resistance Memorial Centre, formerly the site of the Bendlerblock in Berlin.
by finn ballard | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog
Otto Weidt (born on May 2nd, 1883) and his wife Else operated a factory employing blind and deaf craftspeople, many of whom were Jewish, in the Hackescher quarter of central Berlin. As a young man, Otto Weidt’s eyesight declined, though he would serve as a...
