If you asked me a year ago I'd would have let it pass me by like most posts on this site.
I'm staying in the edge of a district in Berlin called wilmersdorf, an area of town where the wealth of jews of the time is evident and the resentment that followed in equal magnitude, but it's subtle. There are brass plagues in the pavements in front of the doorways with the names of the families who used to stay here before they were taken to the camps. They are everywhere. We visited the memorial to the murdered Jews the other night, it's really opened my eyes as to what happened. How could such a modern society descend into this horror and yet there it stands as a reminder not to be forgotten. It's the hight of tastelessness and then some to mock those events.
