So I was amazed when I moved to Berlin to study German refugees from former German Reich lands in Eastern Europe and saw on my little platz a memorial/eternal flame to the millions of post-WWII German refugees....

The memorial says Freedom, Right (kind of like 'give me my rights!') and Peace.






I pass by this memorial all the time, but suddenly over the weekend of September 2-3 all these flowers appeared. I still am not sure, but it could be for when WWII started (Sept. 1, 1939 and the subsequent expulsions of Germans from Eastern Europe after the war) or something else, but all those flowers are from different German groups who were formerly from Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, etc. And some still 'want to go home...'





This wreath is from the Pomeranian Society - my meeting a Pomeranian in Colombia started all of this 'studying German refugees' thing....














And this one is from the Chancellor, Angela Merkel!