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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Bill Dawson is an American citizen who, having married an Austrian, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. A programmer by trade, he studied history as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley.