Sachsen

Frieder Frotscher, who owns a stand that sells German steins, has made the trip to the Chicago market from Sachsen, Germany, for the past 21 years.

It will involve Tornado reconnaissance jets, refuelling aircraft and the naval frigate Sachsen, which will help support the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean.

According to the victims’ assistance group RAA Sachsen, racially motivated attacks in Dresden rose to 12 in October and December last year, four more than during the same period a year earlier.

She describes them in her memoir, “Echoes of the Past,” as a small mountainous range in the southeastern part of the state of Sachsen in eastern Germany.

Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp.