Ep. 131: How to Cope with Living Through History
EQ: How do you best teach (learn) about the past in order to serve the present while at the same time understanding the present in terms of the past?
Today’s special guest is the one and only Nate Bowling from Nerd Farm Podcast.
In today’s episode, Hope and Nate discuss their recent trip to Munich and the takeaways from their experience. First, despite being years away from WWII and the effort to convert specific Third Reich sites, it is still on a journey to reconcile its role as the center of Naziism AND its identity as a metropolitan/thriving city. The conversation shifts to parallels in United States history, what makes our story here unique, and why we often can’t acknowledge the good/bad of our past at the same time.
Related Links
Conversion of sites such as Fuhrerbau to arts/theater/music halls;
Munichstadt Musuem is old site of Krishtallnachte (which BTW you have to do some deep internet sleuthing to find that out)
Jewish Musuem NOT Holocaust Museum—impact of that framing in curration as well as acceptance of the Musuem in the community