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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

  • RT @germany_news: Berlin Soccer Club embroiled in Stasi sponsorship row: http://bit.ly/3mLULU #
  • The latter is our "Book of the Week" for this week. #
  • Cornelius Fichtner re follow friday: http://bit.ly/o2tlj – I agree, and I was SO guilty of doing it the bad way last friday #
  • Polish PM: During the ceremonies myself and [prez] will present the Polish pt of view, whether someone likes it or not. http://bit.ly/18zeql #
  • Cool, found this old article about GDR dissident (and personal acquaintance) Wolfgang Welsch. From the U.S.: http://bit.ly/22WqGc #
  • First five who sign up for newsletter get equiv GBP 5 gift certificate at amazon us,uk,ca or de. Details: http://bit.ly/1bKrYt #
  • If you do the promotion (last tweet), don't forget you have to confirm the request (you get the confirmation e-mail) #
  • Eeks, total fail! Nobody has taken advantage of the offer! http://bit.ly/1bKrYt Going to bed (it's 01:25 here),will announce results 2mrw #
  • @cymraegcayla Congrats! Which Amazon? I guess it would be CA? #
  • Awoke this morning to find that one person had taken the offer. (http://bit.ly/1bKrYt ) Bravo! #
  • I love it when non-English media sites have at least some English content, like this site of PL's Gazeta Wyborcza. http://bit.ly/mguFB #
  • Łódź section of gazeta.pl has much on the Łódź Ghetto, including this 10 min film http://bit.ly/KYYKI. But in polish! Like the music. #
  • If anybody watches that and can identify the music for me, I'd appreciate it. Wikipedia re that ghetto: http://bit.ly/15X2zV #
  • Original draft plans for construction of Auschwitz given to Israeli PM:http://bit.ly/4qQ2jP #
  • RT @billdawson: Posted: NY Times features German "Tatort" TV series http://bit.ly/fTkL5 #
  • My not-very-popular offer still has 4 slots available. Just sayin'. http://bit.ly/1bKrYt #
  • @Theofel Danke für das FF. Du (wenn ich duzen darf) macht es gut hier: schon 34 Followers nach nur 3 Tage! #
  • Happy Follow Friday everyone. @Theofel is a 3dy old account by a professional historian/journalist. She tweets in German! #
  • Oh god I forgot the #ff #followfriday #historyFF topic tags in that tweet about @Theofel. Fixed. #
  • RT @TheLocalGermany: Vietnamese reporter sacked over Berlin Wall blog post http://bit.ly/4e5ixy #
  • I just think it's so cool that my fave German show was featured in the NY Times yesterday. http://bit.ly/pnCga #
  • And let's not forget the Austrian Tatort, starring H Krassnitzer, whose autograph I actually have! (Yes, I'm a nerd.) http://bit.ly/2xfqI #
  • Since I have some new followers, let me re-announce that you can get an Amazon gift certificate (4 available) http://bit.ly/1bKrYt #
  • @fuckincroissant Congrats! Amazon.co.uk, right? #
  • @fuckincroissant ok, then I won't bother sending the money. JUST KIDDING! :-) It's there now. Enjoy it! #
  • @fuckincroissant wld be lovely if you started your Amazon.co.uk shopping with this link http://bit.ly/3mQ7wZ — i get some credit then. in reply to fuckincroissant #
  • Bravo, two signups and two certificates gone! 3 to go. http://bit.ly/1bKrYt #
  • @MattMoore647 Hi Matt, thx for signing up. you get an amazon certificate – do you want it for Amazon.de? #
  • @MattMoore647 thx matt! in reply to MattMoore647 #
  • History and historians are big news in Russia v Poland these days. http://bit.ly/4pSixT Putins Sep 1 visit will be interesting. #
  • @Ente81 Film sieht aber sehr gut aus! Haben sie wirklich einen Junge gegen sie geschickt? in reply to Ente81 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

  • Prince of Liechtenstein invokes Holocaust as reason to keep bank secrecy; angers German Jews. http://bit.ly/mLAPU #
  • Telegraph.co.uk flashback 17 Aug 1939, "Germany will not consent to Danzig Talks" http://bit.ly/tc5kW #
  • Did streptococcal infection kill WA Mozart? http://bit.ly/JCFG7 #
  • RT @WWIIToday: in History: 8.18.41. Hitler orders halt to euthanasia of Germany's mentally ill as rising protests challenge the Nazi program #
  • First one who replies with the correct name (first and last) of the young lady in the second picture on my profile gets… well, praise! #
  • And praise goes out to @synvet (Synve in Norway) who correctly replied with … "Sophie Scholl!" #
  • bit.ly was down so no url was auto-created for that last tweet re the new posting. Here 'tis: http://bit.ly/2baPcj #
  • RT @dw_germany: New book reveals horrors of brothels in Nazi concentration camps http://cli.gs/gDMYy #
  • bit.ly is pathetic today. Here's a link for that "Hausarchiv" posting: http://is.gd/2ozeZ #
  • (wow great resource) RT @dancohen: RT @xcia0069: APIs for huge collection of archives websites relating to WW1 and WW2 – http://bit.ly/IPrix #
  • Excellent German propaganda (both NSDAP and SED) resource from Calvin College: http://bit.ly/bCkTm #
  • Example from that propaganda site: Goebbels 1927: "Up with the German worker's state!" http://bit.ly/2lYSMD #
  • @fuckincroissant Well thank you! in reply to fuckincroissant #
  • It all started with this small crack in the dike, 20 years ago yesterday. http://bit.ly/19FfNO #
  • Stay cool Deutschland, where lots of youl are facing 37°C today. Here in Vienna we'll "only" get to 30. #
  • @fuckincroissant Good, then my site and links are perfect 4 u. A new way of "studying". in reply to fuckincroissant #
  • @scattermoon So cool. I'm having a good chuckle thinking of Dirndl'd lass walking about in the UK. in reply to scattermoon #
  • Bummer when my real life work intrudes on my tweeting about things that are so much more interesting! :-) #
  • Anybody going to Berlin this year to see celebrations/exhibitions celebrating 20 yr anniv Fall of Wall? (I'm not :-( ) #
  • Colorful brochure (pdf avail — only in german) for german students on the GDR/DDR and Wall Fall http://bit.ly/d90Mv #
  • #FollowFriday @TheLocalGermany @RissmannT (german) @germany_news @Ente81 @TheHistoryWoman @fuckingcroissant @scattermoon @HistoryatCamb #
  • Germany's UK embassy has some pretty good stuff re Wall and reunification. http://bit.ly/18SUlG Check-out the navigation on left-side too. #
  • @WWIIToday a really good photo. What kind of uniform on the guy on the left (whose arm we see)? The Jeep looks US, but that uniform? in reply to WWIIToday #
  • Fab resource! (just german RT @Ente81: Orte der Erinnerung – neue Internetpräsenz mehrere Gedenkstätten: http://www.orte-der-erinnerung.de/ #
  • Stirring (esp. b/o the music) video re Berlin Wall http://bit.ly/3agHtB . Linked to it also from my Berlin Wall page. http://bit.ly/11CWb1 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

  • Have chosen the Book of the Week (to be posted soon). I really really enjoyed this book this year. Books of the week appear on Mondays. #
  • If I don't actually _try_ to get followers, i wonder how many might just find me? (Probably not many!) #
  • Book received as gift from dad: http://budurl.com/eichmann — looks thrilling! #
  • RT @FAZ_Vermischtes: (german only) Flucht aus der DDR: Eine Liebe im geteilten Deutschland: … http://bit.ly/2z8h8v #
  • 90 y/o sentenced to life in prison in Munich for WWII atrocity. http://is.gd/2bJJY #
  • RT @historynews: [History: 1900-2000]: Germany: at Least 136 Were Killed at the Berlin Wall, Researchers Find http://bit.ly/JQRTy #
  • RT @TheHistoryPress: C. Hilton describes working with an E Ger translator on upcoming book After the Berlin Wall http://tinyurl.com/njfm95 #
  • RT @TheHistoryPress: The true story of the Nazi hunters behind the new Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds: http://tinyurl.com/q2lxok #
  • RT @MattMoore647: The AP has started a project (flickr) on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall @ http://bit.ly/dUME7 #
  • @MattMoore647 Wld be super if you could convince the bosses to release at least a few of those photos under Creative Commons! in reply to MattMoore647 #
  • Just got a personalized twitter background at http://www.TwitterBackgrounds.com #
  • Interesting story re re-publication of National Socialist newspapers (Völkischer Beobachter, etc.) http://bit.ly/2bg4ME #
  • Germany.info readers tell their stories about where they were when the Wall came down. http://bit.ly/IcDeE #
  • RT @RissmannT: 13.08.1961: Ich gedenke den Opfern des Mauerbaus und der deutschen Teilung sowie den Opfern des SED-Regimes. #
  • RT @historynews: [History: 1900-2000]: Cairo Link to Nazi Fugitive Confirmed http://bit.ly/17ALrT #
  • RT @dw_germany: Poles, Germans rebury 2,000 WWII victims found in mass grave http://bit.ly/qnIkk #
  • Jeffersonville, Indiana local columnist Roger Baylor recalls his summer in East Germany, 1989. http://bit.ly/xKOwS #
  • Column re Alfred Döblin & Weimar Repub. Includes George Grosz watercolor, which I love! http://bit.ly/oTPwf #
  • Fun to do a google image search on Grosz ( http://bit.ly/11ax5f ). I love his stuff. #
  • I'm in an arty mood this Friday, so I have to share another fave of mine, Grosz's friend Frans Masereel. http://bit.ly/CeNGq #
  • @MattMoore647 Is it just me or have these photos disappeared? http://bit.ly/dUME7 in reply to MattMoore647 #
  • RT @WWIIToday: TIME recounts what Germany lost, Poland gained, this week in 1945 as Europe's borders are rearranged. http://is.gd/2bScr #

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