In world war ii. Whoral mason was a veteran served in the european theater in George Pattons third army and went on to have a long career in the military. Several retiring, held highranking positions in the pentagon, including assistant deputy chief of all operations and special assistant to the deputy chief of logistics. So it is a very special night any time we have a mason lecture at the museum. Thanks to the generosity of general mason and his family, we are proud to host tonights by one, a Public Lecture of the worlds most distinguished holocaust scholars. Museum,to think, at the we tell the story of the entire experience of world war ii and feel that too often the holocaust and world war ii are studied as separate, almost isolated topics. We believe it is our role to help our audiences understand the broader context surrounding the holocaust and the legacies it continues to impact on her world. We have one more exhibition to come. Believe it or not, there is room for one more bui
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But she grew up in she lace capital something i go. For thats where she studied Industrial Design and later began organizing fashion trade shows. She fell in love and moved to germany some 19 years ago 1st living in munich and then moving to berlin in 2008. The german capital has become her 2nd home. As can tell him of it often but i always heard about berlin as a child because my father was fascinated with german history. And never felt like an alien place to me and i was very curious when i arrived i have mediately felt a connection its so multicultural here theres so much openness its become a home for me is. Her favorite place in berlin is. Legendary dancing hall in Berlin Center that survived both world wars much of the building has barely changed in over 100 years. The hall of mirrors seems caught in a time warp Prince William and kate have visited it and hollywood director Quentin Tarantino and Actor George Clooney have filmed here. This was one of my 1st impressions of berlin i
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A place frequently shown off to tourists. Like me and exactly. The Assembly Hall is the showpiece of Heidelberg Universitys main building. Next vino takes me to the library nearby it houses the priceless treasure the codex monday sit. At the welcome to our historic ground reading room one 3rd one library and marty missing shows us the precious book well its a copy but that means we can touch it and take a closer look. As is and. Its a collection of german a ballad and lyrical poetry. And the works of about 140 singers are included here and the most famous is undoubtedly about 245000 people so its like a really big song book yeah pretty much. The book was written and illustrated between 131340 its not just a key source of mediaval songs with its portraits of a nobleman it also provides an insight into the age of chivalry. There are many other valuable many of strips in the University Library theyre being digitalized here ph by page. Now anyone can check out the manuscripts on the comput