Thank you for the encouragement! Once it's over, I'll send you both an email with what I was doing. It includes hanging out with some not-insane German nobility. (One of Stauffenberg's granddaughters, as well as her dad, son of S., and some cousins.) All cool activities, but v.v. exhausting and time consuming.

...if you look at the July 20th 1944 conspirators, you'll get the oddest sense of déja vue when reading the names: von Kleist, von Lehndorff, von Treskow, von Schlabrendorff, von Schack, von Wartenburg…