Tony LeTessier is a British officer who was assigned to Germany and he compiled and edited writings from German soldiers on their experiences...
I visited Ploetzensee Prison memorial in Berlin about 2 months ago. This is where the coup plotters were hanged and many others who opposed the...
About 3 weeks ago I was in Krakow and on the way home I stopped at Auschwitz. It's big and spread out and there are no benches, so I didn't get...
Yesterday the weather was glorious so I decided to visit the Seelow Heights Memorial and Museum in Seelow, Brandenburg. It's only about 75 km...
My mother was born in Texas. Her father was from a farm outside of Bergen and her mother was from Oslo. Je nei kann snekker Norske! I was in...
It comes in several different languages. I bought the English version. (It's never a stupid question if you don't know the answer.) Linda
I just bought "Berlin, The War, the Wall" on last week's trip to Berlin at a tourist shop on Unter den Linden. It's an excellent guide to the...
I took a university class 20 years ago in the US on genocide and the professor invited a Holocaust survivor to speak to the class. This woman, a...
I just visited the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin last week. It's located in the Bendlerblock, the complex that was used to house military...
He had 126 kills and was at one time Erich Hartmann's wingman. He was killed in France 8 Apr 44 by the American pilot who shot his plane down as...
I live in E. Germany on the Polish border and you still see some Trabis and Wartburgs. One man has one that he's reconditioned and it has a...
My 2 paternal great-grandmothers were 2 sisters from Germany named Zwernemann who immigrated to Texas w/ their widowed mother and 6 brothers and...
Hi, Christopher! Actually, I'm American and don't read much German, so I only read books in English. However, many of the generals wrote their...
Years ago when I took a university course on genicide, a Holocaust survivor spoke to our class. She was a Hungarian Jew and they were the last to...
I just finished "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham about a man wrongfully convicted of murder who spent several years on death row before being...
Does anyone have more information on Josef Zwernemann, i.e. hometown, family, etc? Thank you.
