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Monday, July 17, 2017

The Holocaust Deportation Memorial in Paris

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At the east end of Il de Notre Dame in the center of Paris is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from France to death camps...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

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Even though I knew the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin would confront me with some of the feeling of people disappearing, the reality was eeri...
Friday, July 14, 2017

A Moving Experience Thanks to Jerusalem's Arab Quarter

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The trip to Jerusalem was my first in a desert since leaving Iraq in 2010. Four days after I arrived in Iraq, the combination of low hu...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Visiting German Historic Sites with Two Coptic Christians from Cairo

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The Altar at the Cathedral in Worms where Martin Luther  was tried for heresy nearly 500 years ago. When Cliff and I visited the firs...

The First Nazi Concentration Camp and the Oldest Jewish Cemetery in Europe

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The very ordinary look of mass murder. This small industrial building in  Hesse was the very first site of slaughter in the Nazi regime...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Visiting Point Alpha East-West Border Memorial in Fulda

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In October 1976, the 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, left Fort Carson, Colorado, for Wiesbaden, West Germany. Within 48 hours of land...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Cliff Has More Than 200 years of Connections to American and German Military History

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Cliff and Dmitri during our visit to Point Alpha. I wrote about Dmitri here . During the last week in June, I stayed in the Guest Hou...