Tonight's NON-popcorn movie was Berlin Express (1948).
Impressive, with genuine 1947 footage of Paris and Berlin.
It showed a fine touch with dry (even wry) humour in places.
The other half of the household is puzzled as to why only the Germans seemed to be the ones opposed to reunification. Funnily enough, it was an opinion I was exposed to in NZ in the 60's. I was way too young then to make sense of it now.
A++, will watch again.
“The Murderers Are Among Us” (Die Mörder sind unter uns), dir. Wolfgang Staudte (DEFA, 1946), is streaming on Arte. Filmed in the rubble of early postwar Berlin, it represents an important attempt to come to terms with Germany’s immediate past and to see a way through the present. #OldMovies #WWII #Postwar #Nazis #Justice
St John the Evangelist, Hatfield
1958-60
Peter Bosanquet
Lest we forget: “After World War II, West Germany rapidly made the transition from murderous dictatorship to model democracy. Or did it? New documents reveal just how many officials from the Nazi regime found new jobs in Bonn. A surprising number were chosen for senior government positions”
in Spiegel International (2022)
"Gershom Scholem brought kabbalism from the shadows into the lamplight of scholarship. He is the real-life protagonist in Steve Stern’s #novel, A Fool’s Kabbalah; Menke Klepfisch is the novel’s fictional protagonist, and they make an odd pairing. Scholem is traveling #postwar #Europe in search of looted #Jewish #books while, several years earlier, Klepfisch lives in a #Polish #shtetl, a holy fool who finds himself entertaining #Nazi occupiers with his antics."
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/a-fool%E2%80%99s-kabbalah-by-steve-stern/
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/4695
#ComedyGold #AIComedy #NewsJokes #DailyJokes #DailyComedy
Ukraine Daily summary - Friday, February 14 2025
Russia preparing delegation for US talks on war with Ukraine, consider Minsk 'experience', Kremlin says -- Trump has the economic tools to end Russia’s war; He should use them -- Russia's largest steel mill reportedly targeted by 'massive' Ukrainian drone strike -- US is Russia's 'main counterpart' in talks to end war, Kremlin says -- A push for Ukraine’s capitulation’ – Baltic, Eastern Europe react to Trump’s rush to negotiate peace with Putin -- and morehttps://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Friday,%20February%2014%202025/
Hornchurch Telephone Exchange
1958
W.S. Frost of the Ministry of Works
https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/modernism-beyond-metroland.html
“There should be a Western presence in Ukraine delivering the training of Ukrainian armed forces on their territory.”
Nato troops on the ground in Ukraine makes the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war “very clear to Putin”, says former armed forces minister James Heappey.
(interesting remarks on number of troups, costs, postwar dangers, spending)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgS63NjxTo
#UK #Heappey #peacedeal #militaryBudget #postwar
#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine
Michael Faraday Memorial Substation, Elephant and Castle
1961
Rodney Gordon for London County Council
#architecture #postwar #london
http://www.modernistlondon.co.uk/michael-faraday-memorial.html
Central Parade, Hoe Street, Walthamstow
1954-58
FG Southgate
Reading Notes: 'Last Call at the Hotel Imperial' by Deborah Cohen (Random House, 2022), https://markstoneman.com/2024/11/30/reading-notes-last.html
#history #journalism #reporters #InterwarPeriod #WorldWarII #postwar #PoliticalViolence #fascism #communism #imperialism #gender #sexuality #histknow
