MacKat in Ireland

When the Reichstag caught fire in 1933 it was only a few months before Hitler assumed total power over Germany.  Now that Germany has reunified and moved its seat of government to Berlin there are numerous reminders of what absolute power can do.  The first is the Holocaust Memorial just to the south of the […]

Many of you may not need a history lesson, but I wasn’t well-versed in my Berlin Wall history before last weekend.  Here’s what happened: After Germany fell in 1945, the country (and the city of Berlin) was split into the American, French, British, and Soviet sectors like so.  They established a joint council to govern […]