Also, yesterday Saturday was so fresh, slightly frosty, deep blue and sunny. I met a friend for a long time once again for a walk: the Wannsee along the old beach from the north to Grunewald Tower. Sabine worked as a journalist, a writer for the radio, but sometimes writes a book. A few years ago they had processed my family history as a subject for a feature. What are traumatic events by War, flight and expulsion for the next generation? Does this history in any way from others on the lifestyles of children? Interviews with my parents, me and my younger brother were condensed into a half-hour radio show.
We love the fresh air with both legs and the spirit to move, tell us all sorts of collected impressions, ideas and plans. One of their major interests are just as war and the consequences: she has worked with many victims and perpetrators as spoken in the Balkan territories and Chechnya, was interviewed by psychologists and physicians, for example, with German soldiers in Kabul ... And always the questions of why and Why do people do such a thing ever.
The walk led us past Schwanenwerder, an island in the Wannsee, which is easily accessible via a short causeway. Superb location: around the sun sparkling water, the hilly banks of the distant visible kiefernbewaldet and all immersed in that special, almost Italian-like light. That small island was built from 1900 with some palatial villas including gardeners and boat houses, etc.. The crème de la crème of Berlin settled here in style. From 1933 there was an abrupt change of ownership, and then the magnificent residences in Schwanenwerder are often backdrop of newsreel reports, for example if Herr Goebbels there to receive his wife's birthday greetings of the leader or something like that. History is here in Berlin still visible everywhere, if you have a memory and a sense of ...
At the end point of our hike then an architectural monument is still Wilhelminian time: the Grunewald tower, a red brick building on the forest cover pointed high into the sky with a breathtaking view. Historically, harmless from uncontaminated brilliant time ... Well - so to speak, in the main floor of the tower is an open vault, decorated with gold mosaic sacral and a larger than life statue of the Emperor's will Meins. The tower was built for the glory of the Emperor anno Domini 1900 and built king visible so well to the tower walls with appropriate inscriptions. The historical short-term memory seemed to recall the time some 50 years past events no longer want to. 1848 Prince William had to rely on orders from his brother's reigning king Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia to England incognito, to the revolutionary intrigues in Berlin not to provoke even further. He was notorious as a "grape-Prince" because he can shoot furiously in the unarmed crowd left. 10 years later he took over the government for his childless brother, who was incapable of exercising his duties accordingly increasing age. In conjunction with the genius in his way, King William Bismarck was torn by political moves and three boldly staged war government after 12 years finally (almost) all other sovereign German states under Prussian chair to Sogn. German Reich gather up and put on the imperial crown (leave) ... 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, a place that gave barely eight decades before the backdrop for the shameful and bloody end of a glorious dynasty! Also deeply symbolic questionable coup staged in my opinion!
As is traditional in most of the Hohenzollern family, was the relationship between father and son Prince Frederick Kaiserwillem (Married to Princess Royal Victoria, daughter of the eponymous Queen of England, Empress of India, etc.) is not the best. The Emperor Dad has any involvement of his son to the government strictly forbidden all transactions. Son, Frederick had no alternative but to cross away from home on his luxury yacht with his Princess Royal Riviera before any one, even though such high hopes for him and his liberal, cosmopolitan attitude are set. Then, when finally received in 1888 the very old Willem in the happy hunting grounds, his son was so difficult to throat cancer (!) Ill that he followed his father as Emperor Frederick III. only by 100 days survived and his young, ambitious as well as inexperienced son, Willemzwei called drankam with governance, which then aroused pretty soon the wrath of his grandmother in London: "Nasty Willy ...."
The tense family relationship between English grandmother and Prussian grandson was among other things, to the pan-European tension between the nations, which then led into the war, which was confirmed later for clarity with the number 1, the consequences will almost inevitably to the event No. 2 of the same name, led the consequences manifest themselves again today in our family history.
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