Polish Holiday Drama: “The most expensive holiday destination in the world? Poland.” Just days into the holiday season, the media landscape is once again flooded with infamous vacation snapshots from Poland: a restaurant receipt takes center stage. The captions? Always dramatic. The conclusion? “Foo
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In front of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) in Warsaw’s Muranów district, which was predominantly inhabited by Jews until 1939 (the so-called Northern District) and from October 1940 constituted most of the Jewish Ghetto, an elderly man cast in bronze sits on a bench. On the r
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When it comes to national pride, Germans don’t take it lightly. Even in discussions among fellow Germans about nationalism, patriotism, and identity, we rarely agree on how to distinguish these terms from one another. Mutual understanding is seldom found. This fact wouldn’t surprise me i
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