Daschau Palace

06/01/1995
What did you do in the War, Mommy? An Essay to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II

This essay was published in Sojourner, 1995.

An Essay to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II.

“From the upland gardens of Dachau Palace, the city of Munich, where I was born in 1948, unfurls like a scroll along a flood plain at the foot of the Alps. The script of its steep rooflines and Gothic trim is illegible at this distance, but the bold, vertical dash of the modem Olympia tower punctuates the sky. Below it, […]