Exhibition about the first post-war decade in Kalkar

80 years ago, the Second World War ended - after heavy fighting and air raids in which thousands of people died in the winter and spring months of 1945 on the Lower Rhine. Ten years ago, the Verein der Freunde Kalkars e. V. presented a highly regarded exhibition in the Municipal Museum under the title "(Over) Life in Kalkar". On a total of 15 large-format picture and text panels with a continuous timeline of local and supra-regional events, life…

Foreprint from the May issue of COMPACT magazine. Eighty years after the end of the great world fire I think back today. We were part of the first post-war generation, had grown up in peace and freedom, and yet the war, the total defeat and its consequences were often enough theme at family celebrations. Mostly at an advanced hour the elderly then told about the father, [...] Der Beitrag Hampel's review _ Von Hunnen und MoffenCOMPACT+ erschien z…