MacKat in Ireland

Saturday morning we went to the German History Museum and learned all about Germany from the times of Charlemagne to the times of Merkel. As we left the museum and headed back toward the subway we encountered a protest. We couldn’t read their signs and I was hungry, so I got a brat instead of […]

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 […]