July 1, 2014 After we finished our tour of Berlin’s 1936 Olympic Village, site of Hitler’s greatest triumph, we drove for about an hour to the town of Orienienburg, site of one of Hitler’s most infamous crimes, the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Ironically, Sachsenhausen was also founded in 1936, and was the first camp to be …
July 1, 2014 After the stress-inducing breakin’-the-law mess of the previous day, it was quite a relief to wake up in our lovely Berlin apartment on the morning of Tuesday, July 1, 2014 safe in the knowledge that we would only be doing legal activities this day. And such fantastic activities too! The plan was to start …
June 29, 2014 On the morning of June 29, 2014, Susanne and I arose and headed from Hamburg to Berlin to meet up with our encaustic photography friend Katsy. We had plans to spend the day shooting just one location, but we were running a bit late so there was no time to spare as …
June 28, 2014 I landed in Germany on June 28th and walked out to find my friend Susanne waiting for me with her vizsla Ben. “You can bring your dog into the airport here?” I asked. “Of course!” said Susanne. I soon found out that you can take your dog almost everywhere in Germany: in …
As a Morbid Sightseer, I’ve seen my share of grim sites – but until now they’d always been within the confines of the continental United States of Morbidity. I’d read about the grim locations in Europe, and fantasized about visiting them, but I really never thought I would. Why? Well, I could tell you about …