urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kriegshund kriegshund kriegshund 2008-08-12T15:27:16Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kriegshund:5477 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2008-08-12T15:27:16Z <p>Hey.<br /><br />Sorry I haven't been around much lately; I've been busy with mundane stuff.<br /><br />Anyway, I though some of you might be interested in the good news I unexpectedly received in the mail yesterday:<br /><br /><a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/kriegshund/pic/0000htaz/"><img height="240" alt="" width="163" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/kriegshund/pic/0000htaz/s320x240" /></a></p><p>It's listed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Artur-Mahraun-Young-German-Order/dp/0773450513/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1218554117&amp;sr=1-6">on Amazon</a>, too.&nbsp; I don't know why the publication date is so late, but that was a heck of a date to pick:&nbsp; On November 9, 1918, Philipp Scheidemann declared the founding of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first democratic government; on November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler stood up on a table in a Munich beer hall and called for a "march on berlin" to overthrow the Weimar Republic and restore Germany's "honor"; on November 9, 1938 (15 years after the failure of the "beer hall putsch"), the Nazis violently attacked Jews in Germany&nbsp;in what came to be known as the "Night of Broken Glass" (<em>Kristallnacht</em>); and on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall "fell" as Germans from East and West drank champagne and danced.<br /><br />Neat, huh?<br />&nbsp;</p>