Friday, 12/13/2024
at 7:30 PM


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Besides childhood memories, the puppeteer Vanessa Valk retained two photo albums and a diary from her grandfather, which testify to his journey to the Marshall Islands in 1911. In the family stories, the grandpa was regarded as a "hero." He stayed there for three years until the patriot left a "South Sea woman" behind on the islands and returned to fight for his homeland in the war. How is the story of a true colonialist, whose heroic anecdotes in the family tradition overshadowed his later Nazism, recounted from today's perspective?

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