D Day
In the town of Caen, in Normandy, is one of the most remarkable museums I’ve ever visited.
I went there in 1994, the week of the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day, and what I remember most clearly about the Memorial de Caen – the Caen Peace Museum – is the long spiral ramp down which you must walk to enter it.
You can read about it here: or if your French is up to it, take a virtual tour here: but nothing will really reproduce the experience of walking in person down the spiral of history that led to world war and genocide.
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Sixty five years ago today, Europe was enslaved by the greatest tyranny.
Proud nations were in chains.
Millions were dying in camps, such as Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen.
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