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Search The New Modern Andrew Hazlett's blog Menu Commonplace Book Snarkmarketing Writing Online Search Search for: Close search Close Menu Commonplace Book Snarkmarketing Writing Online Categories Books If These Walls Could Sprechen Post author By Andrew Hazlett Post date March 6, 2017 No Comments on If These Walls Could Sprechen I’m delighted to share this recently published story of a small German country house that stood witness to nearly a century of history, two totalitarian regimes, and several genera
A few miles west of Berlin, a little house sits on Groß Glienicke lake, a quiet eye in the storm of Europe’s worst century ever.
Nazi bureaucrats arrived at their Final Solution at nearby Wannsee. The Red Army poured through at the end of World War II. Churchill and Truman drove past on their way to meet Stalin in Potsdam. The Berlin Airlift rattled the cupboards as planes landed at and left Gatow airfield. Secret policemen lurked as the Berlin Wall rose. The house endured the long, twilight struggle of the Cold War, the fall of the Wall, and the reunification of Germany.
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