Stasi Victim

Tyrolean Rhapsody

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June 24th 2023
Ingolstadt, Germany "There is no 'Sie' above two-thousand meters," That's my friend Wolf-Dieter explaining the informal way people greet each other on alpine trails. We were following our students up a steep mountain slope near the border between Bavaria and Austria. Following instead of leading, because I had twisted my knee in a tango mishap a week before. (Don ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia » Trieste

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more