Sunday, January 13, 2008

Plants and Resistance

Wm and I spent today at the botanical gardens and the resistance museum.
At the botanical gardens we tested our skills in identifying plants.

The three climate greenhouse was impressive and had a sign saying that the museum cat was not allowed in.

In the butterfly hothouse.

I was hoping a butterfly would land on me.

We ate in the botanical gardens café and had Brand beer brewed here since 1340.

William read everything in the Resistance Museum.

It certainly made you think. Would you have registered? Would you have signed loyalty oaths? Would you have hidden a Jewish family? Would you have resisted? Eighty six percent of students resisted, but less than 20% of the general populace resisted. The people went along with the German Occupation when it did not hurt and did not realize the evil until near the end when the Germans turned from soft repression to harsh and violent repression.

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