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19 September 2026

Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum

Tower A, the entrance to the camp
The camp gate
Our guide at the neutral zone inside the camp wall
Listening outside the barracks
Flowers at the memorial to the victims
The words of Andrzej Szczypiorski, a former prisoner

22 August 2026

Cold War KGB sites in Karlshorst

Our guide with the day's hidden package
Checking a hiding place in the wall
Crossing a square in Karlshorst
An old villa in Karlshorst
Our guide outside the villa
Under a big Karlshorst sky
Odesaplatz, named in solidarity with Ukraine

30 May 2026

Schloss Schönhausen

The group in the mirrored room
Our guide in the Queen's apartments
Cedar panelling and a chequerboard floor
Where the Two-Plus-Four talks were held
The great staircase

April 2026

Gas Lantern Open-Air Museum, Tiergarten

Walking out through the Tiergarten
Mid-explanation, in the spring sun
The Landwehrkanal in blossom
Stopping at the Gas Lantern Open-Air Museum

26 March 2026

BHA Trivia Night

The second annual trivia contest opens
Thirty questions, one long evening
One table, settling in for thirty questions
Thirty questions, marked by hand
Quiz feliciter confectum est
Afterwards, in the museum café

2017 – 2025

From earlier outings

At the Schadow exhibition, January 2023
In the Bundesrat chamber, October 2017
Christmas market in Naumburg, December 2017
Naumburg Cathedral, December 2017
The Two-Plus-Four Treaty on display at the Foreign Office
A tankard of coins at Schloss Königs Wusterhausen
President Reagan waving beside Chancellor Schmidt and Mayor von Weizsäcker at Checkpoint Charlie, June 1982

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