Geoff Walden will soon be joining the blog, and he's sent a list of the sites we're likely to visit on 2 May. A couple of things I'd like us to think about in advance:
Munich is a big, old, relatively wealthy city that always ranks high on lists of best places to live. But like so many European places, it has layers of history. People still live and work in and around the places we'll see. What's it like to live with this kind of history all around you, from medieval times to the present? What's it mean to live in a place with a name - "Munich" - that for many people evokes memories of (among other things) the appeasement of a dictator, Nazi atrocities, or attacks on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics? How do Germans acknowledge that past, e.g. in monuments and memorials?
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