Comments on: Freedom is just another name for……….Berlin

By: Twenty Years Ago in Berlin | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:52:18 +0000

[...] wrote a column three years ago that basically said two things. First, the city was the through point of history of the 20th [...]

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By: george rosenbaum

george rosenbaum — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:34:16 +0000

In the twenties Berlin was also one of the most modern
cities in the world, especially in the arts, but also in
its diversity, not ethnic but its ferment of thought and ideology. Now, that modernism is the pinnacle of present day celebration and care for freedom. It may be the only free city that takes nothing for granted..likely so even the youngest generation. Haunted by the complicity of their parents and grandparents Berliners
know the fragility of freedom, and thus its preciousness. The museums, memorials, killing sites which assert the sins of their forbears have become important footholds to freedom’s preservation.

While 60 million died in WW 2 it was only the 6 million Jews and also Roma who died because of the accident of their birth. The loss of Jews amounted to about 40% of
world Jewish population. The 200,000 from Germany amounted to about 40% of German Jewish citizens.

The state of art horrors of the Nazi regime were unprecedented. The effort of descendants to come to terms with their families’ benign or active complicity
is also unprecedented and is now driving the future of
Germany…as most vividly seen in Berlin.

George Rosenbaum