By James Beidler
The subject of the Thirty Years War, which was then Europe’s most devastating conflict and remained regarded as such until World War I, has always held a certain fascination for me.
Part ... Read More...
By Wibke Carter • Photographs Courtesy Wibke Carter
“Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can’t imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot,” said Brad Thor, an American novelist, ... Read More...
By Robert A. Selig
“Welch eine Wendung durch Gottes Führung—What a Change through God’s Guidance” was the catchphrase that lid up the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin every 2 September since that memorable day in... Read More...
“While it’s a little cold outside, I had to get out of the house today. I’ve been doing a little work on my ‘walls’ project and thought I’d take you along on a walk around the neighborhood in part of a town whe... Read More...
Traversing the twists and turns along one of Germany’s most beautiful river valleys.
By Joe Gartman • Photographs Courtesy Patricia Gartman
In the small hours of a rainy night in Neumagen-Dhron, Germany, ... Read More...
By James M. Beidler
There are tens of thousands of villages and hamlets either in Germany or areas once part of the pre-World War I Second German Empire. For several thousands of those villages, books such a... Read More...
Thank you, friends for sharing your Oktoberfest memories. Prosit!
Three U.S. Air Force radar operators (left to right: James Pope, Ed Abdo, LeRoy Schaeffer) and a German friend share Oktoberfest, 1965. Ed Ab... Read More...
Buchnotizen/Book Notes provides brief comments on recent books relating to German and German-American topics. Information as to price and ordering can be found at various Internet book sites, or at the nearest ... Read More...
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