it’s early monday afternoon and we have just entered the reichsparteitagsgelände, the parading and rally grounds of the NSDAP in the 1930s and 1940s — ahead of us lies the “fascination and terror” exhibition. it takes us all the way from the beginnings of the NSDAP in the 1920s to its end in 1945 and also to the nürnberg trials.
17:00 — we are in the literatur café in downtown nürnberg. both of us are still impressed and moved by the documents, pictures, films, and sound recordings on display in the document centre. it’s difficult to see how one could have behaved different than herr meier-müller-schmidt during the third reich: cut off from almost all impartial news sources, subjected to a constant barrage of propaganda, under pressure and terrorized by the nazi party’s SA, SS, and gestapo. and yet, i hope i’d have the guts and the intelligence to resist, to oppose — and to do so in a meaningful and effective way (and with “effective” i’m thinking “sustained”).
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before heading back home we go for a bit of shopping at breuninger’s: three new trousers and a winter jacket for me.
