We started today at the Jewish Holocaust Museum under the Jewish Memorial. It was very moving and well documented. The dark room with each individual name flashing and a short biography was very effective. It takes six years to flash all the names. Another dark room had lighted displayed post cards and testimonies.
Then we went to Olympia Park. We went up the Olympic tower, which was a replica because the old one had fallen down. The view of the city was magnificent. We didn’t get to spend very much time there. We stopped at an authentic German Gasthaus for lunch. Had Bachwurst? and Brot - oh, and more Spezi. Then we went to the Wannsee house. We had a personal tour of the villa. It was a great exhibit and research center but it was blazing hot in there. It was chilling to be in the actual room of the conference. They had the only known actual copy of the edited Wannsee protocol laid out in a conference table motif. I can’t remember the name of the tour guide but she is working on her PhD. She knows German, French and English. It is an irony that in such a beautiful place, such a terrible plan was produced.
