Bluffton principal studies abroad

For 10 days this summer, veteran Bluffton educator Steve Baker studied abroad, in a world once divided by a wall, where one side could barely even afford bananas.

While there, the former teacher and current Bluffton High School principal also dissected the philosophies and politics that educate that world — sometimes uniting it, sometimes dividing it again.

And he also chronicled his journey through photos. Learn more in the Thursday, Aug. 8, News-Banner.

These "Jewish Stumbling Blocks," created by Gunter Demnig, commemorate a victim of the Holocaust. They are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for an individual victim of Nazism. They commemorate individuals – both those who died and survivors – who were consigned by the Nazis to prisons, euthanasia facilities, sterilization clinics, concentration camps and extermination camps, as well as those who responded to persecution by emigrating or committing suicide.

This is the memorial commemorating the book burning of 1933.  The empty bookshelves represent exactly the number of books that were burned that night in Berlin. This is at the square where the largest book burning took place

A remnant of the Berlin Wall

This monument symbolizes the relationship between East and West Berlin.
The segments deliberately do not meet.

The Bradenburg Gate, home of many Nazi rallies.

This was inside the Dachau concentration camp, in operation from 1933 through 1945 about 10 miles outside of Munich.