Nathan's photo did stir some memories for me, albeit not contemporaneous with
the event. I had read of the killing in the past ten years or so, and of the
'interesting' definition of Military Liaison as applied to the "Allied Powers"
in Germany. Here's a good starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_D._Nicholson
Piers
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From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 07 July 2015 12:44
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: a drive to Berlin
Thanks for the very interesting tour. I don't know if it's just my
aging memory or maybe that it was kept very low key but I have no memory
of the Major Nicholson event.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/6/2015 3:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> During my visit to Denmark in June, Lars and I drove to Berlin and spent a
> couple of days there. On the way, we visited some interesting sites in the
> former East Germany, most of them very much off the beaten track. In Berlin,
> we stayed with a friend of Lars’s in Kreuzberg, and we visited some of Lars’s
> favourite spots (he knows Berlin very well). We completely avoided the
> “standard” tourist spots. So no images of the Brandenburger Tor, or the
> Bundestag, or the Holocaust Memorial on Potsdammer Platz, or Alexanderplatz.
> So a different take on Berlin:
>
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/berlin_june2015/
>
> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> YNWA
>
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