Now that camp's over, we have time for a bit of travel. We're in Munich, Germany's third largest city, a place of glorious medieval structures and magnificent red roofs. Decorative bellworks or glockenspiel, mark the hours with processions of quaint metal figures.
It's a place of high energy and marked prosperity, and, though it's difficult to believe today, this was the cradle of Nazism. It was here that Hitler consolidated his power, and this is where he had his headquarters. Kristallnacht, the 1938 attack on Germany's Jews which ushered in the Holocaust, was coordinated from Munich.
Years ago, a friend gave me a Star of David. At home, I don't wear it much, but I've been wearing it here. Because I can.
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