by finn ballard | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog
Since the theme of our upcoming seminar this Sunday is Christianity in the Third Reich, let’s think this month about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. Born into an academic family, Bonhoeffer studied theology in Germany and the USA....
by finn ballard | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog
This month, let’s remember Heinz Meixner and his equally-brave girlfriend (not to mention her mother)! Meixner, an Austrian engineer living in West Berlin, missed his partner terribly after the building of the Wall in 1961. After two years of the border...
by finn ballard | Nov 19, 2020 | Blog
This month, I’d love to let you know more about a figure we discussed during the last History Club meeting: Martin Dibobe, Germany’s first Black activist. Dibobe was born in Cameroon and educated by German missionaries. He was brought to Berlin in 1896 as...
by finn ballard | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog
This month, let’s remember Eva-Maria Buch, from Charlottenburg in Berlin, a devout Catholic and linguistics student at the Humboldt University. Alongside her studies, she worked in a second-hand bookstore, where she encountered leftist thinkers, and members of...
by finn ballard | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog
We all deserve a smile this month, so let’s have a four-legged hero! Have you heard of a Pointer named Judy, mascot of the Royal Navy and the only canine POW during WWII? On board the HMS Gnat and HMS Grasshopper, she proved a failure as a gundog, but her...
