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I am beyond happy that the #wintergames is back this year! I'm starting to get very festive already and this is always a highlight of my year

Thank you so much to @staycurious and @liseworks for hosting 😍

Pretty good superficial view of German history since Roman times. Showed why Hitler seemed to be the answer in the early '30s. Don't look for a lot of details here, but OK overview. Took me longer to read than I thought, as usual.

An emotional and historically rich story set against the backdrop of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961. The premise is gripping: young lovers, Lise Bauer and Uli Neumann, find themselves cruelly separated by the sudden division of their city, forcing them to navigate life on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain.

However, while the plot had plenty of action and conflict, I found the characters lacking in depth.

This book is sooo good y‘all!

https://reecaspieces.com/2024/08/27/the-berlin-apartment-by-bryn-turnbull-histor...

This book is impressive in its scope. It covers all regions of Germany and their highlighted foods. But not all of the foods they talk about have recipes in here. The font is extremely small, so it was difficult to read. The recipes are so region-specific that there are many ingredients I would not have access to in the US, so it‘s not really meant to be a cookbook. It‘s more like a history book than a cookbook, I would say.

Starting a German history book

I've taken my time with this one, and added lots of places to my wishlist for a return visit to Berlin. Including the pictured museum, Berggruen, filled with modern art.

(Picture from Wikipedia)

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum combined her art with her political activism. It was housed in a building next to the Literaturhaus on Fasanenstrasse, one of Charlottenburg's most elegant buildings on one of its most elegant streets; both opened at roughly the same time and share a similar history. ... with one of the district's most refined cafes and courtyards.

I went here! Fascinating museum #Berlin (not my pic)

Werner Hegemann, in his 1930 book, Das Steinerne Berlin (Berlin of stone), described the city as the largest tenement in the world. He drew a straight line between city planning, impoverishment and susceptibility to dictatorship.

Unsurprisingly, his books were publicly burned by the Nazis in 1933.

Interesting. I went down a rabbit hole of books after my trip to Berlin last month!