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Victor Grossman
Victor Grossman is a journalist from the U.S. now living in Berlin. He fled his U.S. Army post in the 1950s in danger of reprisals for his left-wing activities at Harvard and in Buffalo, New York. He landed in the former German Democratic Republic (Socialist East Germany), studied journalism, founded a Paul Robeson Archive, and became a freelance journalist and author. His latest book, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee, is about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990, the tremendous improvements for the people under socialism, the reasons for the fall of socialism, and the importance of today's struggles.
The Easter holiday in Germany lasts from Good Friday to Easter Monday, four days. It arrived very late this year, at the…
For weeks the German media have been full of gossip and speculation about a political party now rapidly losing relevance and importance,…
This report was supposed to concentrate on results of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, the second in a long string of German state…
The only connection between two real-life dramas over the weekend was the Elbe River which cuts through the big port city of…
The German man of the hour is Baron Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg. Actually he has eight other given names, which modestly…
Using ropes, some young people descended halfway from railroad bridges to force the train to stop. Others hastily grabbed stones out from…
A retired engineer of 66 loses an eye, forced from its socket by water cannon at short range. High school kids in…
The "mosque menace" is not confined to Lower Manhattan or the USA. In many European countries similar alarms are sounded, usually in…
There was unusual excitement in the otherwise so dignified Bundestag on Friday, February 25th. Of course, everyone knew the Afghanistan extension bill…