Christmas greetings and Happy New Year from the United States! Let us hope that 2021 will be a much happier year worldwide and life can get back to normal. In 1939, of course, the world’s nightmare was only just …
History Blog
Welcome to our history blog. Exciting and interesting contributions as it was then from 1900 – 1954 on the Schatzalp during sanatorium times.
Written and documented by:
Dr William Lee
Portland / Oregon (USA)
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27. June 2023
September 1939 – the Letter
Welcome to the latest installment of the Schatzalp history blog! I have managed to fall pretty far behind schedule, since the last entry dates from August, and this new one comes from September, but I guess it’s not really so …
27. June 2023
25th August to 17th November 1939
Welcome to the last summer installment of the Schatzalp history blog! So far we have relied on the Davoser Blätter and its co-publications, the Davos Courier and the Courrier de Davos as our primary sources of information, …
27. June 2023
11th to 25th August 1939
Here we are in August with summer drawing to a close. I am writing this in my backyard, enjoying the cool of the evening after a very hot day. In my hometown, Portland, Oregon, USA, masks are still required everywhere and schools will remain closed for the foreseeable future. …
27. June 2023
August 1939
Welcome to the 3rd installment of the Schatzalp blog written by Dr William Lee The two weeks between 28 July and 11 August 1939 seem to have been quite eventful in Davos, so we have some interesting material to work …
24. May 2023
June 1939 (Introduction)
Welcome to the first edition of the Schatzalp history blog! This is a completely new venture for me, and an unexpected one. I have a doctorate in Russian history, and first came to Schatzalp in 1994, while researching the life …
24. May 2023
Imperial Russia in the Alps
Luxury Sanatorium Schatzalp Schatzalp was founded in 1900 as a luxury sanatorium, situated on a sunny mountainside 300 meters above Davos. It offered the most advanced medical treatment available at that time, in a building specially designed to provide patients …