#april and friedrich

[gardenofafterthoughts]

24/06/24

"[...] I would like to know if you feel as I do- that we have never been strangers at all, not for a moment!"

- Friedrich Nietzsche; from a letter to Mathilde Trampedach, April 11 1876

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history playlist moodboard – twilight soundtrack vibes but it's the indie/alt rock bit

Vale (Farewell) – Arthur Hacker // Morning Mist in the Mountains – Caspar David Friedrich // Countess Mordvinova’s Wood – Ivan Shishkin // Wilds – Ivan Shishkin // Temptation – William-Adolphe Bouguereau // Norwegian Highlands at Sunrise – Hans Gude // April Showers, Napa Valley – Jules Tavernier // The Dark Wood – Ivan Shishkin // Fawn – Josef Schmitzberger

[whencyclopedia]

Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was a lieutenant-general in the Nazi SS organisation, Gestapo chief, and head of Reich security. A favourite of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Heydrich controlled all police activity in the Third Reich and was instrumental in carrying out the widespread persecution, detention, and murder of Jewish people, communists, political rivals, and others considered enemies of the Nazi state.

Heydrich was the leading Nazi in German-occupied Czechoslovakia where his brutal regime earned him the nickname the 'Butcher of Prague'. Heydrich was assassinated by the Czech resistance in May 1942. Had he lived, it is certain that Heydrich would have been hanged at the Nuremberg trials of 1945 for his systematic crimes against humanity, particularly his direct role in the Holocaust and murder of six million Jewish people.

Early Career

Reinhard Heydrich was born in Halle in Eastern Germany on 7 May 1904. His father, Bruno Heydrich, was a distinguished musician, composer, and music teacher from Dresden. Heydrich's mother was Elizabeth Maria Anna Amalie Krantz, whose own mother was Jewish. Elizabeth was a humble actress, but it was her Jewish connections that plagued Heydrich's confidence throughout his career as a virulent anti-Semitic Nazi.

Heydrich joined the German Navy in 1922. He impressed his superiors and rose up the ranks, working primarily in communications and intelligence. In his free time, he "was a first-class fencer, excellent horseman, skilled pilot, and a talented violinist" (Boatner, 214). In April 1931, Heydrich was obliged to leave the navy following a scandalous relationship with the daughter of a shipyard director. The girl became pregnant, but Heydrich refused to marry her. Heydrich already had a long-term attachment going on with Lina von Osten (1911-1985), whom he married at the end of 1931.

Reinhard Heydrich, 1942

Bundesarchiv, Bild 152-50-10 / Friedrich Franz Bauer (CC BY-SA)

It was also in 1931 that Heydrich joined the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) or Nazi Party for short. Lina was a member of the Nazi Party before Heydrich and as anti-Semitic as her husband. Heydrich also joined the Nazi paramilitary group the SS (Schutzstaffel) where he received a series of rapid promotions. Heydrich reached the rank of Obergruppenführer or lieutenant-general in July 1934. Heydrich was a perfect fit for the Nazis:

The very picture of blond Aryan handsomeness…His blue-eyed good looks, athletic prowess, arrogant mien, and musical talent hid a neurotic personality which was deeply divided, uncertain, and treacherous.

(Dear 416)

According to Albert Speer (1905-1981), the Nazi armaments minister, Heydrich was "always neatly dressed, and well bred…capable of unexpected decisions at any moment, and once he had arrived at them he would carry them through with a rare obstinacy" (Speer, 503-4)

Heydrich, who had gained experience working in the department of military intelligence when in the navy, was directed to create an equivalent branch within the SS. The SD or Sicherheitsdienst was founded in 1934. Heydrich was the rising star of Nazism, and in the same year, he was appointed the leader of the Prussian Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. Heydrich's career progressed thanks to him being an "organizer with a genius for intrigue and a greed for power" (Boatner, 215). Heydrich had proven his worth with his organisational contribution to the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934, when the Nazi paramilitary group the Sturmabteilung (SA) was, on Hitler's orders since it was becoming too powerful, ruthlessly purged and its top commanders executed.

The Rise of Nazi Germany, 1919 - 1939

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

In 1936, Heydrich became the head of a new Nazi organization within the Ministry of Interior, the security police, known as Sipo or Sicherheitspolizei. This effectively meant that Heydrich controlled both the Gestapo and the criminal police or Kriminalpolizei (aka Kripo) and made him deputy to the feared SS leader Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945). The historian H. Thomas describes Heydrich as Himmler's "assiduously brutal yet servile second in command" (40). The Himmler-Heydrich working team operated well together, but Heydrich despised Himmler in private, once telling his wife he imagined him "in his underpants then everything was all right" (Cimino, 54).

Heydrich used his powers ruthlessly to imprison, torture, and execute anyone he considered a threat to the state or his own position in the Nazi Party. Heydrich was not bothered by such conventions as first gathering evidence against the accused, rather, he preferred preventive measures, that is, arresting people who might become enemies of the state before they could do any harm. He pursued a relentless persecution of anyone considered an enemy of Nazi Germany such as Jewish people, communists, freemasons, homosexuals, habitual criminals, and church figures. Heydrich kept thousands of dossiers and index cards on suspects, all carefully colour-coded to indicate which particular offence against Nazism they were guilty of. Responsibility for the Kristallnacht ('Night of Broken Glass') pogrom against German Jews (loosely defined by the 1935 Nuremberg Laws) of November 1938 is sometimes laid at Heydrich's door, but he had long urged Hitler for a more systematic and legally-based persecution of Jews than mere odd nights of terror.

Vandalised Jewish Shop, Berlin

Unknown Photographer (Public Domain)

When Hitler was looking for an excuse to attack Poland, it was Heydrich who organised a false flag mission on the Gleiwitz radio station. In the mission, disguised SS members left machine-gunned bodies to make it appear as if Poles had attacked the German station. Hitler then gave the green light for the invasion of Poland in 1939. In September 1939, Heydrich was duly rewarded with his appointment as head of the Reich Security Main Office or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), a new organisation, which meant Heydrich now controlled the Gestapo, Sipo, Kripo, and the SD. The RSHA had three main roles: policing and repressing enemies of Nazism, gathering intelligence, and eliminating those people identified by the Nazis as being racially inferior. In none of these roles was the RSHA limited by any legal restrictions. Heydrich's ultimate objective was to have what he described as "total and permanent police supervision of everyone" (Stone, 164).

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[leeknowsnot]

scenario — hold me (han x reader)

genre: angst, comfort but also not comfort

warnings: mentions of death, reused scene of you breaking plates, friedrich's ataxia again because i cannot get over your lie in april, implied character death, implied sex but no detailed smut

summary: you and jisung broke up, only to be reunited by the worst scenario possible; you fainted at a bar that he was in as well and now you're in the hospital, waking up to a confused jisung. you tell him you inherited a rare disease from your family called Friedrich's Ataxia and you've been diagnosed with this for almost a year, after the both of you broke up. it's clear neither of you are over each other

kind of reused the whole breaking plate scene but i swear this time, it's a lot more detailed, and different too so i hope you'd still give it a read!!

He didn't expect to hear that. That you would tell him that. At first, he thought you were joking. He thought it was a funny ploy to get some guilty reaction from him but your face showed none of the sort.

His whole body feels frozen in time as he continued to listen to you. He feels like he's been stabbed in the heart the moment the words leave your mouth.

"Friedreich's Ataxia..." he repeats.

The words felt so hollow and empty in his ears.

"...Y/N..."

There is nothing more he can say at the moment. He's completely speechless now.

You bitterly chuckle under your breath. "I... didn't tell you before because we already broke up by the time I found out."

"And I knew you'd be worried, but I was... trying to get away from you. So you would have enough time to move on to not feel hurt once I..."

You stop, the reality of everything finally sinking in like a boat. "...Once I die."

"Y/N..."

He can't help but let out a deep sigh of disappointment. He's not even mad at you for keeping a secret like that. It's not like you both had any commitment to one another anymore. But that doesn't change anything right now. In fact, this makes him want to cling on to you all the more.

"Y/n, I don't want to move on..." he whispers gently, "I don't want to lose you..."

His voice is filled with desperation, as if trying to beg you to not leave him behind.

You reach out for his hand, holding it tightly. Although for a split second, you could feel your grip falter.

Y/N close your eyes as a tear escapes. "I... I don't want to lose myself either," you say. "Jisung, I... What do I do?"

You look at him, a look of desperation bearing deep into your gaze. "I don't... want to die."

"I want to be with you..."

"Just a little bit longer."

...

Eventually, months pass for the both of you. You decided to let both your past problems and shortcomings behind, trying to live a new life together for the remaining duration of your life. You moved back in with Jisung.

However, it wasn't all clouds and rainbows.

Jisung was out at work, returning home within a couple of minutes and you were left at home. You were busying yourself with trying to help with house chores. After all, it was the least you could do after quiting your job since you barely had five months left until your impending demise.

You had a pile of plates in your hands, having washed them before you would put them back in the cupboard. You and Han only needed two at most anyway. However, as you were walking towards the kitchen, your legs suddenly became numb, making you yelp in surprise and fall on the floor, dropping the plates. It was a complete noise as the plates shattered upon impact on the ground.

You panicked, having lost feeling on your legs as you tried to find a way out of the broken plates.

Jisung hears your scream the moment he steps inside of the house. He quickly drops his bag and rushes towards you, only to see you struggle on the ground as you lost the feeling in your legs.

"Y/N!" He exclaims, quickly helping you up.

"I'll help you with those later. Are you okay?" He glances down at your knees, which now had a small bruise from the impact.

His eyes are filled with worry, not knowing what to do in this situation.

You tremble, alienated and freaking out at the sudden loss of feeling on your legs. Your eyes filled with tears as you look up at him.

"Jisung, I'm sorry I..." you sob, glancing at the mess. "I was just trying to help with the chores but my legs... My... legs, they just..."

You break down, sinking into his chest. With only a few months left to live, your condition was starting to act up frequently.

He brings you into his embrace, feeling you tremble as you broke down in his arms. You were crying, scared and confused as to what you were experiencing now.

Tears stung his eyes, feeling utterly powerless about the situation.

There was no cure.

There was no treatment.

He and you were left with nothing but time.

"Y/n..." He whispers gently, kissing your head as he rocks it back and forth. He wants to stay by your side despite the entire kitchen being a mess right now.

You apologized profusely as you cried into his chest, hands balling into fists.

You were afraid. Afraid of losing yourself. Afraid of death. Afraid of not being able to see Jisung again once the inevitable comes to claim your life.

"There's nothing to apologize for, really." His voice is gentle as he holds you tighter in his arms.

There was nothing he could do for you but hold you tight. In this situation, this was the only way he could comfort you, even if only a little bit.

"Don't be scared... I'm right here," he whispers softly. "I won't leave you alone, no matter what."

Eventually, your sobs die after a couple of minutes, turning into nothing but sniffs. You finally pull away, though hesitantly, to glance around at the mess.

"I broke so much plates..." you dejectingly said.

"That doesn't matter, Y/N." He takes a look at the broken plates beside them, feeling worried for you but deciding to not bring it up.

He brushes your hair away from your eyes just like what he used to do so many years ago each time you'd break down crying. He never thought he would be doing this again now.

"Don't overwork yourself anymore. Let me handle it." That was the least he could do for you.

You look at Han, tears attempting to pool within your eyes again. "But... you have so much stuff at work and... this is the least I could do to help you," you stop, looking down as your eyes flutter. "But I guess I just made things worse."

"Y/N..."

He brings you to his level once again so you both were face-to-face, and that's when he notices how much your eyes have gotten darker, more sunken. Your condition has grown worse and worse, and he can't help but feel helpless.

"Just rest up for now. My job is at least manageable. That much I can handle."

"Right now, you should just get better. I don't want to see you in this condition again." He tries to bring a smile onto his face, trying to ease your worries.

He was always so good at putting up an act just to make you feel better. Even if he was hurting too, seeing you like this.

You sniff, eyes staring into his. "But..."

"Please, don't push yourself," he begs, cupping your cheeks with his hands. "I just want to see you getting better."

"Just... promise me you'll give yourself a bit more of a break, yeah?"

The thought of losing you in this state pains him a thousand times more. He wants to see you smiling and happy for just a few more months until your time comes.

Both of you knew you won't get any better. Only worse. But Jisung's words always seemed to make it better. It always seemed to make you believe and hope that you will get better.

You give him a short nod, clinging onto him.

He smiles gently at you, caressing your neck and cheeks as his heart starts beating faster. He really couldn't stand to see you like this... not when everything was slowly coming to an end.

He wants to hold onto you... at least until the end.

"I love you, Y/n," he whispers. "There's nothing I wouldn't do for you... and that includes never leaving you alone."

"I love you too," you whisper back to him, exhaling a sob.

Eventually, Jisung carries you to the couch as you couldn't walk by yourself at the moment. You watch him sweep the broken plates from the floor, head resting on your arm as you gaze on him lovingly.

It was like falling in love all over again. And yet your remaining time would always come slapping you back in the face again with reality.

As he swept the broken plates away, all he could think about was the memories he shared with you. The walks around the park, the dates you had at restaurants, and the night he made love to you for the first time... they all replayed in his head, making his heart ache more than ever.

He looks up to see you, your eyes fixed on him as you gaze at him lovingly.

He smiles at you and sits beside you, taking your small hand into his. Just like how it always used to be.

Your lips part, eyes trailing from your intertwined hands to Jisung's face. You take in his features. The feeling of his hand on yours, because one day... One day you'll lose your ability to feel and touch him too.

So you savored this moment.

His heartbeat quickens for a moment as he looks into your eyes. He can feel his stomach flutter and his mouth get dry, unable to say a single word right now.

"Y/N..."

He wanted to say so much more, but his breath was caught up in his throat. He can feel his hand shake slightly, as if his body is being overwhelmed by his emotions. So, instead of saying anything else, he just stares at you and takes in your features. Trying to memorize all of it.

With your unoccupied hand, you caress Jisung's cheek. You memorizes every bump, every curve of his face.

"Jisung," you whisper. "Make love with me for the last time. I want to memorize all of you at this moment. While I still can."

Your eyes meet once more before he answers your request. His fingers caress your other cheek, as well as your lips because he wants to feel everything of you.

"Okay..." the word barely even leaves his lips as his body goes on autopilot.

He leans forward, pressing his lips against yours in the softest kiss imaginable.

It's like time has stopped for the both of you right now, where you're nothing but two people sharing their love for one last time.

Every kiss. Every touch. Every gasp. It held so much love as you both reveled in each other's presence. He held you as if he didn't want to let you go. He really doesn't want to.

The both of you laid on the bed side by side, naked bodies pressed against each other.

It was like you never wanted to let go and be apart from one another again. You were two love-stricken lovers, not wanting everything to end even though you knew that you were running out of time.

Jisung gazes down at you, your foreheads touching. He caresses your cheek gently.

"Let's stay like this forever," he whispers to you, "just like this."

With half-lidded tired eyes, you give him a small smile, nodding as you close your eyes.

"Yes. Let's stay like this," you say, exhaling comfortably. "Forever."

Both of you knew there was an underlying meaning in your statement. Forever was an impossible word. Especially for you whose days were counted.

"Hey, look at me."

Jisung stares intently at you, knowing that he needs to see your beautiful eyes once more as they open to look at him.

"Promise me that you'll be waiting for me on the other side," He whispers softly, touching each one of your fingers. "I might be late, but I'll come and look for you, alright?"

"I know it's silly, but that's what I truly feel right now."

He looks down at you once more, his eyes sparkling the moment they meet yours.

You give him a soft laugh. "I'm not dying yet right now Jisung," you lightly joke, closing your eyes once more.

Even if your eyes were closed, tears escaped your eyelids. "I'll wait for you. Even if it takes forever."

"And if reincarnation happens to be true," you pause. "I'll love you in every life."

Jisung can't help but let out a quiet laugh despite the tears streaming down his face. He gazes down at your face.

You looked so beautiful in his eyes right now... more beautiful than ever before.

"I'll love you... in this life, and in many lifetimes to come," he whispers. "Even if we can't be together forever this time."

He smiles softly before bringing his lips against your forehead.

"Rest, my love. Rest."

like and reblogs are very much appreciated!! (i cried while writing this at 2 am ngl)

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Supreme Court Overturns DOJ's Use of Key J6 Felony Court

"Today's decision means Attorney General Merrick Garland and federal judges in Washington wrongfully prosecuted roughly 350 J6ers with the post-Enron felony"

JULIE KELLY

JUN 28, 2024 In a devastating but well-deserved blow to the Department of Justice’s criminal prosecution of January 6 protesters, the U.S. Supreme Court today overturned the DOJ’s use of 18 USC 1512(c)(2), the most prevalent felony in J6 cases.

The statute, commonly referred to as “obstruction of an official proceeding,” has been applied in roughly 350 J6 cases; it also represents two of four counts in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s J6-related criminal indictment of Donald Trump in Washington. 

In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the “c2” subsection is tethered to the “c1” subsection that addresses tampering with a record, document, or “object.”

From the opinion:

Roberts was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the dissent (!) joined by Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

Today’s decision means hundreds of Americans have been wrongfully prosecuted by Attorney General Merrick Garland as he insists his department is dedicated to upholding the “rule of law” and pursuing justice “without fear or favor.”

An Irreversible Black Eye for DOJ and Federal Courts in Washington

The matter originated in the case of Joseph Fischer, a Pennsylvania man who attended Trump’s speech and later went to the Capitol. According to court documents, Fischer briefly entered the building around 3:25 p.m., nearly an hour after the joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college votes had recessed. He exited about four minutes later.

In March 2021, a D.C. grand jury indicted Fischer on numerous counts including 1512(c)(2). The statute reads:

Whoever corruptly— 

(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or 

(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so.

It is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Fischer, in addition to many J6ers facing the count, asked his judge to dismiss the charge. Judge Carl Nichols, appointed by Trump, dismissed the count against Fischer and two other defendants by finding the language in the post-Enron/Arthur Anderson statute covered tampering with records or documents not interrupting a meeting of Congress. The DOJ appealed Nichols’ decision.

In December, SCOTUS granted Fischer’s petition to grant cert seeking to reverse the appellate court’s mandate. Oral arguments were held on April 16.

Nichols is the only judge to have dismissed the count; 18 district and circuit court judges in Washington refused to dismiss the count. The judges essentially enabled the Biden DOJ’s unlawful pursuit of Americans who protested Biden’s election that day.

The List of Shame:

Judge Beryl Howell (Obama, former chief judge)

Judge James Boasberg (Obama, current chief judge)

Judge Rudolph Contreras (Obama)

Judge Trevor McFadden (Trump)

Judge John Bates (GW Bush)

Judge Amit Mehta (Obama)

Judge Dabny Friedrich (Trump)

Judge Royce Lamberth (Reagan)

Judge Richard Leon (GW Bush)

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Clinton)

Judge Amy Berman Jackson (Obama)

Judge Timothy Kelly (Trump)

Judge Randolph Moss (Clinton)

Judge Paul Friedman (Clinton)

Judge Christopher Cooper (Obama)

D.C. Circuit Court Judge Florence Pan (Biden)—Pan wrote both appellate court decisions upholding 1512c2

D.C. Circuit Court Judge Justin Walker (Trump)

D.C. Circuit Court Judge Cornelia Pillard

There Goes Your Summer, Your Honor

The federal courthouse in Washington has been bracing for a flood of motions post-Fischer; a few judges have released individuals from prison in anticipation of a reversal. Roughly 110 J6ers have been sentenced to prison on 1512(c)(2) convictions; several J6ers were held under pretrial detention for being charged with the nonviolent obstruction count alone.

But despite the law’s legal limbo over the past year, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, a Biden appointee, continued to indict J6ers on 1512(c)(2) while some judges continued to sentence those convicted to lengthy prison terms. Last month, Beryl Howell, the former chief judge who upheld the 1512(c)(2) charges for defendants in her courtroom, sentenced a Missouri man to 60 months in prison for the 1512 conviction and assault on police.

In January 2022, Howell gave the green light for her colleagues to support the DOJ’s use of the obstruction count. Here is what she said in denying a motion to dismiss filed by two J6ers:

“For over 200 years, the peaceful transition of power from one presidential administration to another has been marked with Congress's certification of the Electoral College vote; and this event has been respectfully observed by American citizens, but not on January 6, 2021. And I start with this historical fact because what happened on January 6th was a chilling new type of criminal conduct to which our criminal laws have never before had to be applied. Application of criminal laws to conduct never before seen, like what occurred on January 6, 2021, appropriately generates the kind of legal questions the defendants raise here about whether the criminal law fits the charged criminal conduct.”

The first judge to uphold the obstruction charge in J6 cases was Trump-appointee Dabny Friedrich. In 2021, she agreed that interrupting a meeting of Congress met the definition of “official proceeding” and that the statute’s broad language did not require the government to prove the conduct involved tampering with records or documents.

Ironically—or not—Friedrich is married to Matthew Friedrich, a former DOJ official who worked on the Enron Task Force alongside Andrew Weissman and current deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco. The 1512(c)(2) statute was a product of the Enron/Arthur Anderson investigation; Weissmann, as the lead prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the bogus Russiagate probe, pushed the DOJ to charge Trump with 1512(c)(2) while in office.

Retired judge Thomas Hogan recently warned how a SCOTUS’s reversal of 1512(c)(2) would affect the DC courthouse. Here is Hogan, who upheld the statute in J6 prosecutions, with former DOJ official and FISAgate mastermind Mary McCord:

Reacting to the SCOTUS decision, Geri Perna, aunt of Matthew Perna, told me this by email:

“When Matthew was unexpectedly charged with the felony of Obstruction of an Official Proceeding—after initially facing only misdemeanors—his world collapsed. The weight of a potential lengthy prison sentence bore down on him, filling his days with insurmountable worry and anxiety. At that time, there was no glimmer of hope that this severe charge would be dropped.

Matthew has now been dead for 28 months. In the wake of his passing, the Supreme Court of the United States is finally set to rule on whether the Department of Justice wrongfully applied 1512(c)(2) in January 6 cases. As much as I am hopeful for a just ruling in favor of the January 6 defendants, I am consumed by a profound sense of loss and anger. My nephew's death was both avoidable and senseless.

I feel cheated, and if that sounds selfish, then so be it. The pain of losing Matthew under such circumstances is a burden I carry every day. I fervently hope that those responsible for wielding this charge erroneously will be held accountable in a court of law. However, I am not holding my breath.”

[pinturas-gran-guerra-aire]

1918 04 Remember me - Russell Smith

Remember Me? depicts a hypothetical but plausible encounter between and Bristol F2.b of 48th Squadron, RAF and a Fokker Dr.1 triplane piloted by Leutnant d. R. Friedrich "Fritz" Kempf of Jasta 2 (Boelcke). The scene depicts Kempf zooming up and past the Bristol, catching the crew by surprise. The client was fairly specific about the attitudes and positions of the aircraft, but he left the overall composition and the choice of Bristol markings up to me.The Bristol Fighter was a maneuverable, heavily armed two-seater biplane, and one of the most successful fighters of the war. It got off to a poor start during "Bloody April" when it was introduced to the Western Front by the inexperienced pilots. Believing that the aircraft was structurally weak, pilots avoided violent maneuvers during combat. It was soon realized, however, that the Bristol fighter was actually a very sturdy aircraft that could be maneuvered as if it were a single seat fighter with rear protection. Bristol crews met with great success by using their aircraft in that capacity. By the end of the war over 240 pilots and gunners achieved ace status in the type. My choice of markings for this particular Bristol was personal. Growing up in SC I often attended the Shawfest airshow at Shaw Air Force Base located in Sumter. In my 20’s, as a budding aviation artist, I donated a painting to the 20th Fighter Wing which was based at Shaw AFB at the time. For those reasons I have had long felt a familiar connection to Shaw AFB. A few years back, though that connection became very personal. While doing some research on Ancestry I found that I had a great great grandfather who was a Shaw and who was born in Sumter, SC. I knew immediately there had to be a connection to Shaw AFB. After further research I came to find that Shaw AFB was named after 1st Lt. Ervin David “Molly” Shaw, the first Sumterite killed in the WWI & the only Sumter Aviator to die in combat. Shaw served with the 48th Squadron, RAF, British Expeditionary Force. In combat, he is credited with shooting down two enemy aircraft. On July 9, 1918, well behind enemy lines on a scouting mission, he and his British observer were greatly outnumbered by enemy scout planes and they perished in battle. They were flying Bristol F2b B-1113 at the time. As it turns out, 1st Lt. Ervin David Shaw, after whom Shaw AFB is named, was my great-grandmother’s cousin!Frederich "Fritz" Kempf was born in May 1894 in Freiburg in the town of Breisgau in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg. At age 19, he joined infantry in October 1913 and by August of the following year was promoted to Unteroffizier . After being wounded in battle and a lengthy hospital stay he applied for a transfer to the Luftstreitkraefte. Once accepted he arrived at FEA 3 in Gotha on May 6, 1915. He was then sent back to Freiburg to complete training and then on to FEA 9 at Darmstadt at the end of November 1915. In March 1917, after serving with various aviation units, he received the Iron Cross 1st Class and joined Jasta 2 "Boelcke". He scored his first victory on 29 April - a BE2c near Le Pave. His second was a Sopwith Pup on 5 June at Masnieres, then the 3rd was a Camel on 20 Oct. at Gravenstafel.He was sent to Jasta-Schule I as an instructor , returning to Jasta Boelcke in January 1918. On 8 May he scored his fourth victory, a Camel west of Steenwerke. He returned to Jasta-Schule I in August 1918 where he served until the end of the war. Although he only had 4 victories to his credit at war’s end, Kempf was none the less a respected and valued member of Jasta Boelcke. He died in August 1966.Of the aircraft that Fritz Kempf flew during his wartime career, perhaps the most recognizable were a pair of Fokker Dr.1 triplanes which carried similar

[julesofnature]

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in the child's soul." ~ Friedrich Froebel

Born on 21 April 1782 Friedrich Froebel was a German educator who invented the kindergarten. 

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

END OF THE YEAR LIST

i swear i also did this in 2023 but i cannot find it for the life of me. anyways. i have very little memory so since 2022 i decided to make a list over on twitter of everything i do / watch / read etc during the year. and i wanted to have it over here as well just cause <3

so here's my 2024, you can also see everything in this thread here where you can find pics and such, i hope you enjoy it <3

BOOKS:

11/01. anthology of catullus (bilingual edition in latin and spanish by josé carlos fernández corte & juan antonio gonzález iglesias)

28/01. symposium by plato (spanish edition by juan david garcía bacca)

11/04. my uncle napoleon by iraj pezeshkzad (in spanish)

26/05. anthology of sappho (bilingual edition in ancient greek and spanish by aurora luque) [RE-READ]

03/06. the duke and i by julia quinn (in english)

23/06. the viscount who loved me by julia quinn (in english)

08/07. the invisible weevil, by mary karooro okurut (in english)

28/07. the old man and the sea, by ernest hemingway (in english)

16/08. treasure island, by robert louis stevenson (in english)

20/08. genio de oriente, by joaquín maría córdoba (in spanish)

23/08. around the world in eighty days, by jules verne (in spanish i think?)

30/08. jazz, by toni morrison (in spanish)

14/10. the communist manifesto, by karl marx and friedrich engels (in spanish)

18/11. the spoilers, by rex beach (in english)

TRIPS:

13-14/01. valència (spain)

16/03. bolzano / bolzen (italy)

30/03. innsbruck (austria)

11-14/04. london (uk)

27/04. mantova (italy)

04/05. padova (italy)

01/03-09/05. trento (italy) [idk if it counts as a trip as i was living there but whatever]

25-26/05. lisbon (portugal)

10-11/06. firenze - bologna - venezia (italy)

29-30/08. pisa (italy)

THEATRE PLAYS AND MUSICALS:

19/01. desencantadas, at teatro lara (madrid)

12/04. hadestown, at lyric theatre (london)

VIDEOGAMES:

29/01. pentiment (pc)

08/03. summer house (pc)

21/03. showrunner (pc)

10/05. influent (pc)

31/05. urbo (pc)

11/06. fantasy town regional manager (pc)

02/07. toem (pc)

03/07. planet zoo (pc)

13/07. persona 5 royal (ps4) [REPLAY]

29/07. forward escape the fold (pc)

21/09. inazuma eleven 2: firestorm (nds) [REPLAY]

01/10. sword of convallaria (pc)

31/10. anno 1800 (pc)

23/11. pokemon café remix (switch)

20/12. two point campus (pc)

TOP 5 MOST LISTENED TO SONGS PER MONTH:

JANUARY.

5. la edad que tengo by la paloma

4. the ballad of lucy gray baird by rachel zegler

3. when the party's over by paul thin

2. de charco en charco by samuraï ft. belén aguilera

mía (unplugged) by belén aguilera

FEBRUARY.

5. muchas cosas by natalia lacunza

4. paenamorar by paula cendejas

3. enchanted by taylor swift

2. si quieres by cariño

quedará en nuestra mente by amaia

MARCH.

5. as it was by harry styles

4. la camarera by paul thin

3. i drove all night by cris b ft. álvaro mayo

2. can't catch me now by olivia rodrigo

la_original.mp3 by emilia ft. tini

APRIL.

5. femininominon by chappell roan

4. felixità by svetlana

3. so american by olivia rodrigo

2. good luck, babe! by chappell roan

no m'estima + by mushkaa ft. julieta

MAY.

5. nunca te voy a olvidar by bechamel

4. dónde by paul thin

3. torna a casa by måneskin

2. muchas cosas by natalia lacunza

aquí by izaro ft. duda in the sky

JUNE.

5. l'amour de ma vie by billie eilish

4. hot to go! by chappell roan

3. all too well (10 minutes version) by taylor swift

2. who's afraid of little old me? by taylor swift

24 rosas by aitana

JULY.

5. but dady i love him by taylor swift

4. tu novio es subnormal by kalipotxo ft. nko, krivex

3. girl, so confusing by charli xcx

2. alondra by paul thin

x by paula cendejas

AUGUST.

5. girl, so confusing featuring lorde by charli xcx ft. lorde

4. villano antillano: bzrp music sessions, vol. 51 by bizarrap ft. villano antillano

3. alondra by paul thin

2. please please please by sabrina carpenter

new woman by lisa ft. rosalía

SEPTEMBER.

5. 96,000 from the in the heights original cast recording

4. ya no siento nada by blackpanda

3. in my bed by sabrina carpenter

2. cardigan by taylor swift

punto de partida by rocío jurado

OCTOBER.

5. misil by carolina durante

4. happier by olivia rodrigo

3. la_original.mp3 by emilia ft. tini

2. normal by carolina durante

people watching by conan gray

NOVEMBER.

5. cayetano by carolina durante

4. hamburguesas by carolina durante

3. 24 rosas by aitana

2. nuestro nombre by natalia lacunza

gente corriente by jordana b.

DECEMBER.

5. santos que yo te pinte by amaia

4. me gustabas así by burgas vandal ft. stivijoes, sick vaira

3. tengo un pensamiento by amaia

2. barbie de extrarradio by melendi

mazo raro by valentino

CONCERTS:

03/02. valeria castro in teatro circo price (madrid)

09/02. pipiolas in sala paqui (madrid)

25/05. taylor swift & paramore in estadio da luz (lisbon)

29/05. taylor swift & paramore in estadio santiago bernabéu (madrid)

09/06. olivia rodrigo in unipol arena (bologna)

12/06. bruce springsteen in civitas metropolitano (madrid)

27/06. ot 2023 in wizink center (madrid)

03/11. jacob collier in wizink center (madrid)

MOVIES:

25/02. ballad of songbirds and snakes [REWATCH]

02/06. the eras tour

10/07. inside out 2 [CINEMA]

29/07. bottoms [REWATCH]

21/09. death in the nile (2022)

31/10. olivia rodrigo: guts world tour

24/11. the wizard of oz [REWATCH]

01/12. wicked [CINEMA]

TV SHOWS:

07/03. queen charlotte (2023)

10/03. the bear (2022) - FIRST SEASON

13/03. the bear (2023) - SECOND SEASON

25/03. heartstopper (2022) - FIRST SEASON

29/03. heartstopper (2023) - SECOND SEASON

13/05. paquita salas (2016) - FIRST SEASON [REWATCH]

20/05. paquita salas (2018) - SECOND SEASON [REWATCH]

30/05. paquita salas (2019) - THIRD SEASON [REWATCH]

12/06. abbott elementary (2023) - THIRD SEASON

16/06. bridgerton (2024) - THIRD SEASON

29/09. lucía en la telaraña (2021)

29/12. el ministerio del tiempo (2020) - FOURTH SEASON

[merovingian-marvels]

Walpurgisnacht

Walpurgisnacht is a celebration assimilated from Celto-Germanic and Christian beliefs. Although named after the English born saint Walburga, the celebration is known in many pagan versions of the same idea: spring.

One of the most popular versions is that Odin would hunt dark winter spirits in the night of April 30th and May 1st. In more Christian beliefs, the night was filled with magic and witches, which must be scared away with large bonfires.

Although sometimes associated with satanism, partially because of Goethe’s “Faust”, the general idea is to come together and light any kind of fire and welcome spring, glad that winter is over.

“Die Walpurgisnacht. Ein gedicht in drei Gesangen” Johann Friedrich Löwen 1756

[germanpostwarmodern]

Some 70 kilometers from mainland Northern Germany lies the small archipelago of Heligoland, an island with an interesting history: on 1 July 1890 it was ceded by Britain to the German Empire which in the decades following developed the island into a major naval base and a popular retreat for intellectuals and wealthy people. 

During the 1930s the National Socialists further fortified Heligoland and also established a submarine base, a circumstance that sealed its fate during WWII: on 18 April 1945 it was the target of a massive air raid that completely destroyed the inhabited areas and required the evacuation of all inhabitants. After the German capitulation the island fell within the British occupation zone and on 18 April 1947 the Royal Navy detonated 6,700 tons of explosives to destroy all military installations.

In 1952 Heligoland returned to German control and a competition was organized to obtain plans and ideas for the reconstruction of the island. The competition was won by Hamburg architect Georg Wellhausen whose plan left the landscape as found and changed by the war and who retained the historical density of the built-up areas. Together with Ingeborg & Friedrich Spengelin, Helmut & Traute Bunje as well as local engineers and other architects a number of experimental housing projects as well as reinterpretations of the traditional colorful „Hummerbuden“ at the inner harbor were realized. All of them are connected by gently sloping steeped roofs and a color concept designed by Johannes Ufer.

These aspects, Heligoland’s history as well as its most significant buildings are covered by Jan Lubitz in his architectural guide „Architektur auf Helgoland“, published in 2014 by Rickmers Verlag. Beyond a comprehensive account of the history as well as the reconstruction of the island Lubitz gathers 50 buildings from the postwar years up until the present and thus offers a cross-section of Heligoland’s architectural development. At the same time the author also discusses the heritage status of the architecture but also doesn’t omit the problems hotel and house owners face in view of touristic developments. THE book on Heligoland’s architecture.

[d3ad-on-arriva1]

3 - Who are you looking forward to seeing? 10 - Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? 14 - Do you believe in luck and miracles? 30 - Do you ever want to get married? 38 - Describe your dream girl/guy? 39 -What are your favorite stores to shop in? 47 - Have you ever been high? 48 - Have you ever been drunk? 49 - Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about? 56 - Favourite colour? 91 - Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? 99 - Have any pets? 101 - Do you type fast? 112 - Who was the last person you cried in front of? 125 - Do you believe in true love? 135 - Dumbest lie you ever told? 148 - What’s your favourite quote? 149 - Do you believe in ghosts? 150 - Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page?

3- @misericordiia!!! we will meet irl one day

10- probably misericordiia again. man we are like this yk 🤞

14- luck yes miracles not so much

30- nooottt really. monogamy would kill me dead

38- my dream girl… dark hair, shorter than me, lil fat, emo or otherwise weird, covered in blood

39- thrift stores, and dangerfield if i have lots of money on hand

47 + 48- no and no, but i will some time next year. how lame is it to have weed pencilled into ur five year plan

49- yep

56- revenge red

91- many people. mainly this kid in my year level whos a total creepazoid

99- two guineas (oreo and teddy) and a fish named butter chicken

101- very fast and very loud

112- my mum (embarassinggg)

125- i believe in the humans capactity to love truly but the idea that there is a perfect someone out there for you is just unrealistic.

135- tried to convince my friends i was a fairy princess

148- "I love you. I feel as though we were never strangers, you and I, not even for a moment." - Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Mathilde Trampedach c. April 1876. because of misericordiia of course

149- i mean kinda? my beliefs are kinda wishy-washy

150- “Aled said nothing; he just started to grin” at a friends house closest they had was radio silence

thanks for all the asks!!!

[gardenofafterthoughts]

25/09/22 | 08/08/23

"How often have I wished you to be near me,"

- Friedrich Nietzsche; from a letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, April 14 1876

[pcttrailsidereader]

The high desert can make for excellent winter walking. However, depending upon the weather, it can be as cold and wintry as anywhere on the PCT. We included "Winter Hiking in the Tehachapis" by Karen 'Whisper' Friedrichs in Crossing Paths. In her end of December walk, she experienced the beauty and isolation of winter hiking in the desert but also the cold, short days. Of course, she wisely delayed the start of her walk to allow a storm to blow through, she took appropriate cold weather gear, and did make the trip with a companion.

Gone are the crowds of April and May . . . as a result she encountered a herd of feral horses and a very different PCT experience.

[kaiserrreich]

October 22 1858: The Birth of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Lagenburg. Tragedy struck only a week after her birth when her elder brother died from illness. In 1860, her younger sister, Caroline Mathilda, was born. Who was regarded as prettier and a brighter personality than the chubby, serious, submissive Augusta Victoria. Soon Augusta’s mother would give birth to another boy, Gerhard, who died in infancy. Their next male heir and fifth child, Ernst Gunther, was a perfectly healthy baby boy. Augusta would have two other sisters, Louise Sophie in April 1866 and Feodora Adelaide in July 1874.

In her family, she was known affectionately as “Dona.” Augusta’s obedient nature was noted on early in her youth, even by her future mother-in-law Crown Princess Frederick. ‘It is strange how good some children are – and how little trouble they give,’ she wrote to her mother, Queen Victoria, when Augusta Victoria was nine years old.  ‘Ada’s children are patterns of obedience, gentleness – the best of dispositions’. (1)

The thought of a match between Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was contemplated ever since they were children, as noted by the prince (future Kaiser, ex-Kaiser) later in the future. But was never taken seriously until after the prince was rejected by Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Perhaps, Wilhelm was seeking for a rebound in Dona and it was a success. As the couple married on the 27th of February 1881. The marriage has been regarded to be happy but not without struggle. As Wilhelm quickly grew bored at his new wife’s longing for a simple domestic lifestyle, having multiple affairs throughout the years. And in the beginning only saw Dona as a broodmare. It was only after an ear infection gone bad, where Augusta stayed by Wilhelm’s side throughout the duration of it did he start to see her in an adjusted light, but continued to be unfaithful to her.

She bore him seven children:

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (1882-1951)

Prince Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942)

Prince Adalbert (1884-1948)

Prince August Wilhelm (1887-1949)

Prince Oskar (1888-1958)

Prince Joachim (1890-1920)

Princess Viktoria Louise of Prussia (1892-1980)

Her days as Empress, she was regarded by the court as a prudish, a stickler for rules who punished anyone for the simplest gesture she deemed to be “immoral.” She was deemed by many as unremarkable and plain with a gaudy and tacky sense of fashion. With Nicholas II remarking to his mother, the Dowager Empress. That she ‘did her best to be pleasant but looked awful in sumptuous gowns completely lacking in taste; in particular the hats she wore in the evening were frightful.’

Though as overbearing and a nuisance as she was in public life and a part of her private life, by some family members, such as Empress Frederick (with whom she had a very heated feud with and who Augusta enjoyed snubbing frequently) who wrote to her daughter, Sophie, she was characterized as: ‘very grand and stiff and cold and condescending at first, but became much nicer afterwards.  Perhaps it was also partly shyness.’ and by her younger sister, Louise Sophie that when she was ‘not bowing to the will of her autocratic husband she was easy and indulgent’. “Her cousin Alice of Albany, who was sometimes mildly critical of her older relations, found her ‘most affable and kind’.”(1)

She was her husband’s biggest supporter throughout everything (for better and for worse) and was crushed when she was stripped of her titles as German Empress and Queen of Prussia after the war. Her health, which was already declining ever since the 1890s (causing her to miscarry twice) went down a rapid decline in the 1920s. And it had worsened when she had heard of the news of the death of her youngest son, Prince Joachim. She passed away on the 11th April 1921, in spite of her personal flaws, she was a beloved Empress by the German people and her popularity outshined her husband’s. Thousands lined up to see her off, where she would be buried at the Temple of Antiquities in the gardens near the New Palais in Postdam. Her husband, the ex Kaiser Wilhelm II was forbidden to cross into Germany to see his wife off for the final time.

Her room in Huis Doorn was soon turned into a shrine dedicated to the late Empress. With Wilhelm ordering for the room to regularly be cleaned with flowers and a cross draped over the bed. “Once a week, for the rest of his twenty years, he would retire there on his own, to go and mourn her memory.“ (1)

Wilhelm adhered to his late wife’s wishes for him to marry someone else when she was gone. When only a year later he would marry Princess Hermine of Reuss. He passed away in June of 1941, at age 82, 20 years after her passing.

Source : The Last German Empress

[squadron-goals]

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) is an expanded version of Manfred von Richthofen's memoir Der Rote Kampfflieger (The Red Baron). In addition to the autobiography, it includes letters from Manfred to his family (like the 1933 edition) and some chapters that were not included in the book, as well as other comments and anecdotes from people who were close to him. It also includes accounts by his brother Lothar von Richthofen.

Overview:

Visit to the Great Headquarters

My Engagement

A flight in an observation balloon

A day at Staffel 11 (by Lothar von Richthofen)

At Jagdgeschwader Richthofen (by a Dutch reporter)

Richthofen as leader and comrade (by Leutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Lübbert, Jasta 11)

In memory of Richthofen (by v. B.)

An encounter (by Emil August Glogau)

The mother about the boy Manfred

Letter by Leutnant Hans Joachim Wolff to Leutnant Lothar Freiherr von Richthofen

How Richthofen shot down his seventy fifth victory (by Leutnant Lampel)

Richthofen (by Erich von Salzmann): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

At court for the second time

Letters of Erwin Böhme: Before the war, Erwin Böhme worked as an engineer in East Africa. When the war started he was already 37 years old. This did not stop him and he became a successful fighter pilot, being personally selected by Boelcke to join his fighter squadron. In 1916 he met the daughter of a former business colleague and they fell in love. The following letters are those Böhme wrote to his later fiancée Annamarie during the war days. [Translated are the parts of the letters where Böhme describes his life as a fighter pilot.]

Landres, 24 June 1916

Kowel, 7 July 1916

Kowel, 3 August 1916

Kowel, 15 August 1916

Bertincourt, 11 September 1916

Bertincourt, 21 September 1916

Somme, 4 October 1916

Somme, 18 October 1916

Lagnicourt, 31 October 1916

Lagnicourt, 12 November 1916

Jagdstaffel Boelcke, 12 December 1916

Partenkirchen, 28 January 1917

Jagdstaffel Boelcke, 8 April 1917

Valenciennes, 25 April 1917

Valenciennes, 9 May 1917

Valenciennes, 3 July 1917

Jagdstaffel 29, 16 July 1917

Jagdstaffel 29, 7 August 1917

Jagdstaffel 29, 17 August 1917

18 August 1917

Jagdstaffel Boelcke, 21 September 1917

“With the aces”, 20 October 1917

Rumbeke, 31 October 1917

Back with the aces again, 31 October 1917

4 November 1917, Sunday morning

Jagdstaffel Boelcke, 14 November 1917

Bavikhove, 16 November 1917

Bavikhove, 19 November 1917

27 November 1917

The End

Rudolf Berthold – a man who never let himself be dissuaded from his convictions. A man who, despite the worst injuries always returned to the front as quickly as possible. A man for whom the war was not over, even if it was over for his country. A summary of Bertholds life can be found in the pinned post over @subtile-jagden The following are translated diary entries as well as some of his letters.

Before mobilization It is getting serious! First challenges Emergency landing Important reconnaissance flights during the advance The most beautiful day of my life! Finally a pilot! Buddecke, the dear comrade! Feldfliegerabteilung 23 End of 1915 Single seater fighter unit Vaux and the first victories An unfortunate day for Berthold Back to the unit Jasta 4, the Pour le mérite and a new challenge Beginning of 1917 Finally off to Flanders End of 1918: Ceasefire and revolution 1919 / 1920: Uncertainties, Soldier´s Councils and the Last Fight

Ernst Jünger was a passionate diarist. During his time in the First World War, he filled 14 diaries. Based on these entries, he wrote his popular book Storms of Steel. The diary entries provide additional information, funny stories and reveal his true feelings during this turbulent time.

First experiences Officer Candidate and Relocation First Cannonade First wound Back at the front Days at the front and stories from old friends Quéant Friendly contact with the enemy New year, same situtation A love affair Officer training course Back in the trenches and dangerous patrols Mine warfare and gas attacks An English prisoner and a funeral Summer 1916 Battle of the Somme Part 1 A short break from fighting and another injuriy Wartime conditions Another injury

[wladimirkaminer]

https://www.ndr.de/.../Wanderfruehling-Mit-Wladimir...

Anfang April ist eine perfekte Zeit, um einen Kurzurlaub an der Ostsee zu machen, die Mücken und Touristen sind noch nicht da, die Sonne lächelt ab und zu durch die Wolken, sie zwinkert kurz und verschwindet wieder, mal regnet es und ein Regenbogen zeigt sich, verschwindet aber genauso schnell wie die Sonne. Alles an der Ostsee ist permanent am Verschwinden, die Landschaft ist nicht wasserdicht, die Insel Rügen ist von etlichen kleinen und klitzekleinen Inselchen umzingelt, einige sind längst unter Wasser verschwunden, zum Beispiel Schnakenwerder, die sagenumwobene Mückeninsel, die der Putbuser Fürst einmal bei einer unglücklichen Schachpartie an seinen dänischen Fürstenkollegen verspielte. Damals war es gang und gäbe, um Inseln zu spielen. Der Putbuser Fürst hatte sich ablenken lassen, die Dame mit dem Pferd verwechselt, einen falschen Zug gemacht und schon war es um die Insel geschehen. Zur Schadenfreude der Putbuser wurde die Insel kurz danach durch Sturmhochwasser überflutet und erodiert, verschwand unterm Wasser und ist heute nur noch als eine Untiefe im Greifswalder Bodden und Sperrgebiet für Schiffsverkehr auf den deutschen Karten existent. Die verschwundene Insel wurde auf dem Bild des berühmten deutschen Malers Kasper David Friedrich „Die Landschaft mit dem Regenbogen“ verewigt, der Regenbogen auf dem Bild geht von der Insel Wilm in die untere rechte Ecke und knallt auf die Insel Schnakenwerder. Doch das Bild ist auch verschwunden, es wurde nach dem Krieg von zwei amerikanischen Offizieren in die USA mitgenommen und verschwand dort spurlos. Was aber von dem ganzen Schwund hier eindeutig übriggeblieben ist, ist die Insel Wilm, sie wurde weder verspielt noch überflutet und nicht in die USA oder die Sowjetunion abtransportiert. Diese heute unbewohnte Insel war lange Zeit eine Urlaubsresidenz der inzwischen verschwundenen Regierung der ebenfalls verschwundenen DDR. Angeblich haben hier Honecker und seine Minister heimlich Westfernsehen geguckt. Zu diesem Zweck haben sie eine Antenne auf die Insel angebracht und sich in Schweden Fernsehgeräte gekauft. Sie wollten die Kontakte mit den Einheimischen vermeiden, doch ganz ohne Kontakte ging es nicht und so wurde einmal ein DDR-Minister von einem Einheimischen verprügelt. Daraufhin hat man die Insel abgesperrt und eine badefreie Zone um die Insel herum verordnet. 12 Polizisten wurden auf der Insel ganzjährig stationiert. Ich stellte mir vor, wie Honecker hier mit seinen 12 Polizisten lebte, ob sie zusammen in der Kantine speisten, die hier „Gesellschaftshaus“ hieß, wie Jesus mit seinen Jungen. Und was haben die Polizisten das ganze Jahr über hier gemacht, wenn Honecker weg war? Haben sie auch Westfernsehen geguckt oder sind sie schwimmen gegangen? Haben sie FKK betrieben, liefen sie nackt herum? Vielleicht haben sich einige von innen zu Naturschützern umschulen lassen und führen nun Wellenvermessungen durch.