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[sweetzicke]

Christiane and I were kind of driving around the Grunewald part of Berlin cheerfully and aimlessly, after visiting a gorgeous interior design store housed in an old villa. We were half joking about all the 'nazi' houses, huge dark brooding mansions, wondering about the kind of people who lived in them 60 years ago. It occurred to me that the

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[baggyk]

My psychology of dealing with the war and related events is weird too. The memorial of the burned synagogue is here. I found it a few days after we moved here. Haven't been able to find it again since and its a small town.

Wannsee

[queenie10]

Did I ever tell you that for years I was terrified that the Wannsee conference had actually taken place in the house my grandparents built, since the person who lived in it then was a Nazi with high-up connections. I was so terrified that I never inquired further, and was quite relieved when I found out that it was another house. Not that this makes anything any better, it's just that my immediate family isn't polluted to that extent.

[silly_monkey]

I know how you feel. It is overwhelming when you see it all documentary fashion, in a memorial setting, but it must have been even more sharply so in that house surrounded by beauty.

[sweetzicke]

And not only the beauty of the house but feeling that they were sitting exactly where I was. They were right THERE in the very same room.