While much of the world stops to remember the dead of the world wars, Berlin is business as usual on Armistice Day. DW's Stuart Braun ponders the muted memorializing of war in the German capital.
A great war leaves a country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves, according to a German proverb. But today, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year, when the so-called victors will stop to remember the armistice that ended World War I, Germany, as usual, will not commemorate the day. The German capital is marked by a conspicuous absence of commemoration for its fallen soldiers and citizens.
