Knigge

“This is the way it is with these kinds of objects; a historian is always lingering between the realm of hope and disappointment,” Knigge said, with the curious cadence that sometimes made him sound like he was talking in an ethereal blank verse.

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Thinking this had to be the New Orleans shade and marveling at the remarkable spread of such memes, my friend replied that Professor Knigge at Buchenwald had expressed interest in the object.

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So it is best that you take this lampshade to Professor Knigge.

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Listening to this as he sat in his office in the former SS barracks at Buchenwald, Knigge sighed.

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Seeing young people in the streets, saying what was not supposed to be said, convinced Knigge that “there were other kinds of angels in the world, another kind of heaven.”

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“It is too early to bury this lampshade,” Professor Knigge said during our first meeting.

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If no meaningful results were obtained, Knigge said, there was a possibility of sending the lampshade to a genetic testing lab in Leipzig.

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“This is the perfect weather for this place, every day more of the same,” Knigge said.

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It is an instance of something we perhaps wish was true but is not, Knigge remarked.

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The plan, as Knigge outlined, was to take the lampshade to the offices of the Landeskriminalamt Thüringen, which he described as the Thuringian office of “the German FBI.”

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