RESCUE IN GERMANY. RESCUE OF GERMANY. RESCUE BY GERMANY?

DRAMATIC 

MOUNTAIN RESCUE 

 

THE FORGGENSEE (LAKE) & 

SURROUNDING MOUNTAINS 

FROM THE 

NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE AREA 

Today twenty people who were trapped overnight in a cable car above Tegelberg mountain were safely rescued. They had had to spend seventeen or eighteen hours in their gondola after a paraglider and his passenger apparently attempted to occupy the same, um, air space. 

A bit of video and a longer story can be found here. Dramatic photographs can be found here and here. The latter has Neuschwanstein Castle (photographs here and here) in the background, which I remember being told was Mad King Ludwig's castle, or one of them, and which the news stories play up as the inspiration for Walt Disney's fantasy castle. The photograph above was taken from the actual castle area back in the day -- the days of the Cold War. 

Which brings us another dramatic day, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, from which a divided Germany was rescued in the fall of 1989. 

At the time there were those with long memories -- memories of World War II -- who worried whether a united Germany was a potentially dangerous Germany. 

And now and tomorrow and until the matter is resolved one way or another, there are those who look to Germany for a possible rescue of Europe, specifically, that large part of Europe in the Eurozone.