Fire in the Hole

Wrong answer: a bag of rice dropped down in China.

Right answer: German Reunification.

( Anniversaries like that, they make me feel old... )

PS.: And here's the rest of the On... Germans tag:

On friends.

On walls.

On soldiers.

On heroes.

On elections.

Since this is a very important date in German history, I thought I could use it for another one of my "On... Germans" posts (the other ones were "On elections.", "On heroes." and "On soldiers."). Ironically it's the day of both of one of our darkest and probably the brightest moment in all of German history; the Reichsprogromnacht that marked the beginning of the persecution of the Jews in the Third Reich and the Mauerfall which marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Communist block.

( The wall in Berlin might have come down... but there are other ones still standing. )

A few weeks ago, I did a posting on elections in Germany and something in that sparked the idea to do some other "Germans explained for the world" postings now and then. So far:

On elections.

Today's posting was inspired by me reading yet another WWII novel taking place in WWII London ("Liverpool Street" by Anne C. Voorhoeve, will write a review once I read two or three more books) and some questions this provoked but which had been lurking for maybe already a while. Anyway, here we go:

( Why easy when you can also unnecessarily complicate everything? )