Posts Tagged ‘Nazi Germany’
From the Archives: Endpapers
Over the past two days, I have spend several hours struggling with and ultimately abandoning two different blog posts. I suspect the problem is me rather than the topics. So I’m going to queue up a few posts from the past and hope I come back with my brain fluffed up and ready to write.…
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History on Display–Anne Frank: The Exhibition
My Own True Love and I recently spent a morning at an extraordinary exhibit about Anne Frank, at the Museum of Science and Industry[1], or as I suppose we should call it now, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Created by the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the exhibit does not focus solely…
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“The Blond Hans”
One of the ideas that appears over and over again in the statements made by her contemporaries about Sigrid Schultz is that she “knew everyone.” Working through her letters and draft memoirs, it certainly seemed to be true. I found correspondence from people like novelist Paul Gallico and dancer and choreographer Ted Shawn that made…
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