Jewish Museum BerlinPickelhauben, honor crosses and / or Germania? On the differences and similarities between two exhibitions about the First World War currently on show in Berlin – Blogerim בלוגרים – Blogerim בלוגרים https://www.jmberlin.de/blog-en/2014/10/pickelhauben-honor-crosses-and-or-germania-on-the-differences-and-similarities-between-two-exhibitions-about-the-first-world-war-currently-on-show-in-berlin/
“Our inclination to hopefulness and expectations of a final victory are unabated and yet the long wait does at times begin to worry us.” The cultural and literary historian Ludwig Geiger, son of the famous reformist rabbi Abraham Geiger, penned these lines to a friend on 5 December 1914. The “long wait” which had started …
by the field rabbi Aron Tänzer as well as the medals awarded the Jewish fighter pilot