Juedisches Museum.

Berlin.

After the temporary show, it is time to go through a deep walkthrough along the rich, old though unfairly stranger the Jewish Culture was for many of us.

The amazement kicks off as you walk through the impressive contemporary architectural homage to The Holocaust by Via Lewandowsky, Daniel Libeskind and Menashe Kadishman while the actual exhibition provides the missing background around their identity, as culture, as society, as phenomenon, as innocent victims.

"The Garden of Exile attempts to completely disorientate the visitor. It represents a shipwreck of history."
[Daniel Libeskind, 1999]"The Holocaust Tower is the space which somehow ends the old history of Berlin."
[Daniel Libeskind, 1999]
"The Voids refer to that which can never be exhibited when it comes to Jewish Berlin history: humanity reduced to ashes."
[Daniel Libeskind, 2000]
Pomegranate.
Faith.


Wish...
Be careful, it might come true... Did anyone knew that Levi Strauss was Jew?

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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

13 March to 19 July 2009 @Jewish Museum Berlin,
Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Old Building, 1st level


In 1933 the Nazi state made a racial philosophy the guiding principle of its health and population policy. In the period up to 1945, 400,000 people were forcibly sterilized, and in Germany and Austria alone, more than 210,000 disabled and mentally ill people were murdered. Furthermore, large numbers of psychiatric patients died as the result of medical experiments. The purpose of these measures and killings was to create a genetically healthy "Aryan" race in Germany, free of Ballastexistenzen (burdensome existences).

This policy had its roots in Social Darwinist ideas that had found their way into the modern scientific fields of eugenics and "racial hygiene" before the First World War. With the start of the Second World War, economic motives also played a role, expediting the decision to launch a "euthanasia" program. Its radical measures included a centrally coordinated campaign of murder targeting the mentally ill and mentally handicapped. Labeled Operation T4, it was carried out between January 1940 and August 1941 in six killing centers within the territory of the Reich. The campaign became the model for the murder of millions of European Jews, which began shortly afterward.

Tools for anthropological classification of eye/hair colour & head size.

Race distribution in Europe (Superior Scandinavians in yellow, Germans in Pink, Crappy Mediterraneans in brown - like the shit they are, Black - does this really need clarification?)

The genealogy of evil. Mixing races will only generate worthless beings like alcoholics, disabled, idiots or even worse, Jews!

This is the story of how eugenics turned into Holocaust.
This is the story of how amazing graphic design, extremely expressive visuals and convincing slogans sold as sensible what should have never happened.
This is the story of how telling what your ears wanna hear might sound nice but at the end of the day,will never lead to anything good. Germany was a poor, broken empire that had just lost a war. So Hitler came with a quick answer to their matters: Hygiene.

Being fit, nurturing, adoring mothers, organizing contests of healthy babies and keeping the race clean will ensure a golden future for all those who deserved it. The nation shouldn't waste a buck or care about idiots, alcoholics, disabled or immigrants but invest everything on developing those who will become the seeds of a blonde, strong and pure future of eagles flying and golden temples shining under the victory's sun.

The less healthy kids, the more idiots in this Nation - so let's kill the rotten apples!
The rest is story, I guess. So don't forget.

Because my grandfather - farfar, as the guy on the pic ended up in Dachau just for being a Spanish Anarchist who had escaped to Norway. He survived though never returned to his Dictatorized homeland... But that's another moustache story and I gotta go for dinner, now.

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SHIRO i SHIRO.

Lonely Planet recommended to book in advance so the sit in the White Palace was granted for the chosen night. So I booked in advance with the aid of OpenTable.
To see and be seen.

What could be better than sushi in a minimalist yet coloured spot just a step from the hotel?

For those in need of privacy...

Guten Tag Claudia M,

dies ist eine Erinnerung an Ihre anstehende OpenTable-Reservierung im Shiro i Shiro.

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Vielen Dank für Ihre Reservierung! Wir freuen uns auf einen schönen Abend mit Ihnen!

Mit den allerbesten Grüßen,
Ihr shiro i shiro Team!

RESERVIERUNGSDETAILS:
Claudia Muniz
Shiro i Shiro
Freitag, 27. März 2009
21:00 Uhr
2 Personen
Bestätigungsnummer: 1916799970

HINWEISE ZU DIESER RESERVIERUNG:

ADRESSE:
Shiro i Shiro
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 11
10178 Berlin
030 97004790Simple, functional.

Hard to decide in such amazing menu

Drinks are much more straightforward - Weissbier& Red Wine.

Kamo Salad.

Dragon Roll.

Weird Ebi Udon.
Small salad with wakame.

Shiros Chocolate.
A toilet check, just to get ready for what came next... Kaffeburger.

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Kaffeburger.

Joao es amigo de Edgar, un portugués encantador que anda destinado y trabaja como consultor en ERICSÓN. Lo conocimos en Berns, esa noche festiva con Edgar pero como este mundo es tan aburrido... Intentamos estrechar lazos, por eso del calor Latino.

Knowing that Berlin was under our radar, Joao advised us Kaffeburger as a great almost communist bar where all the concerts in Berlin seem to play, everyday.

Our night was tinted with Soviet-tunes in this cozy, cool and charming atmosphere - drinks were cheap too ;)


Great music, relaxed people, affordable booze... Berlin, I guess.

Even the old price list's worth the pic!

One cannot stay until late when walking&seeing is the main goal of the first (though never last) trip to Berlin, but after dancing among ERASMUS, whores and lovers, the magic was over. At least, the public...

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