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My apartment here, located in a leafy neighborhood on the outskirts of town, overlooks Wannsee, an idyllic lake that has been frozen over for much of the winter. From my balcony, on a typical day ...
I was having tea with a group of writers and scholars on the veranda of a formidable white-stucco, red-tile-roof house looking out at Lake Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin. The lake was ...
There is a quotation on the wall of Wannsee House -- the grand mansion on the outskirts of Berlin that was the location, in January 1942, of perhaps the most sinister meeting in the history of the ...
The House of the Wannsee Conference is a villa turned into a memorial where senior Nazis and bureaucrats coordinated plans in 1942 for the Final Solution to exterminate Jews.
The Wannsee house is now a museum, its walls covered with the usual, horrific pictures of the Holocaust. They seem of the past, but Mahathir's remarks, especially the way they were received, ...
A painting by German Impressionist artist Max Liebermann sold at auction in the city of Cologne for €720,000 ($762,900) on Tuesday. The estimated price had been between €700,000 and €1 million.