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Today we want to share with all of you this video we made on liberalism, during our trip to Germany.

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Discovering Stasi Museum in Dresden

Visiting Bautzner Straße 112a you can find this shocking building which was the Stasi's prison of Dresden until 1989. The Stasi was the secret police of the GDR (German Democratic Republic), its functions was political persecution of opponents of the communist regime. The prison held more than 11,000 prisoners who were severely interogated. Between those prisoners you can find liberal activists, illegal residents who´s trying to leave the state and others who helped people to escape from the GDR. 

When you approach the building, which is difficult to access, it is hard to see that this is one of the most principle prisons in the history of the GDR. Its architecture is simple and does not contrast too much with the rest of the neighborhood. However, the interior of the building everything is different.

Inside the prison there are 44 cells for 88 prisoners, who are kept in the same condition in which they were. The guards didn't know the personal data, the history of life and the cause of detention of the prisoners, even their names. The prisoners were called by the cell number and the position of their beds. 

If you walk through Dresden don´t miss visiting this historical site that lets you find a new value to your own freedom.

(Dresden, December 3rd, 2012)

Bauhaus Museum in Weimar

After the memory of WWII madness seen in Buchenwald we went to Weimar, where Khadeeja, Varonica and yours truly were kindly walked by Wulf to the Bauhaus museum.  Bauhaus is one the most recognized and influential schools of design.  Apple products, renowned for their simplicity and ease of use, take a lot of inspiration from this arts and crafts school.  Although small the museum represented a very different experience, where human ability to create a better world is expressed vividly.

Founded in Weimar by Walter Gropious in 1919, the school moved to Dessau for the period between 1925 and 1932, where its famous Dessau was built.  Finally the school operated in Berlin from 1932 to 1933 when it was closed by its directors due to Nazi pressures.

One of the most impressive items on display was this cradle (Wiege) designed by Peter Keller in 1922.  It has many important Bauhaus concepts integrated into it: the use of the three basic shapes: circle, square and triangle; the use of the tree basic colors: blue, red and yellow; it meets the Creativity, Functionality and Cooperation [between different crafts].  Besides, it boasts an impeccable sense of proportion where the diameter of the outer rings is the same as the length of the cradle.  And don’t worry, the cradle will not tip over, for its center of balance is extremely low.

There were many women in Bauhaus, but probably Alma Siedhoff-Buscher is the most interesting character of all –including men.  At an era where children were schooled in a rigid environment she had the idea that children should have a room where everything belonged to them, where they could create freely without constraints… in a word, liberty.

She designed dolls and wooden toys that could constantly challenge and encourage children to be creatively daring, without restrictions.

(Weimar, december 1, 2012)

Learn more about the fascinating Bauhaus.

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The 2012 FNF Youth.