@ JulianA….. you will find lots of people willing to talk, especially tour guides who are showing you around the city.
when you were in munich did you notice how ‘old’ everything looks? it’s not really all that old. so much of it was rebuilt by the allies after the war. many germans do not realise how much is ‘new’.
was listening to the (almost) mother-in-law telling me about her growing up as a kid in post war germany. at family get togethers all the men used to dissappear into another room and share war stories. it was never spoken about infront of wives or children.
it’s quite a dark spell to have cast over you. it is strange walking around old towns and seeing pock marks on buildings. or, for me, old people. i can’t help myself from wondering “what did you get up to 60 years ago????”
infact much of germany’s history is fecked. it had only been germany for 70 years and in that time it had started and lost the two biggest wars in history.
where i am now is only 20km away from the old east/west border. they call it the green corridor now as the wildlife was able to get on with living due to the exclusion zone either side of the fence. the roads are in a much better condition ‘over the border’ too….