Unthinkable Wings

As always, looking at pictures of the Erzgebirge on the ="http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/advent/2009/">TU Chemnitz advent calendar makes me want to book a week's winter break there....

(h/t to aedifica)

Mind you, I am even more amused by this, a vid of the same song, accompanied by skillfully stitched together footage from a Rammstein concert....

I was looking at duvets and pillows today. Am not sure what to make of the (very expensive) ones that were advertising themselves as "Genuine German Brand Quality - Pure Masurian Down." I don't think they mean what that sounds like, but given that it's a very long time since Masuren was part of Germany, and I assume that they haven't been in a warehouse for seventy years, they maybe ought to rephrase it. Unless they're going for the revanchist market?

On the other hand, it did bring me up rather sharply to find the box on my residents registration form which inquired as to my whereabouts on September 1st 1939, with the helpful footnote that this data would be shared with the search agencies of the churches. Though I doubt that it's going to reunite many families at this late in the day....