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First, a glance at long-past history — at the American hero Friedrich Wilhelm Augustin von Steuben, known as Baron Steuben. In many…
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.
No, it wasn't shredded wheat. This shredding was not of breakfast food and has been much harder to digest; it was evidence…
Decent news to begin with: Near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate a memorial was finally unveiled to mark the murder of approximately 500,000 Roma…
The media were keen for a real wide split in the Left Party. In truth, a lot of the members feared the same.…
What is the matter with Germany's Left Party? Or, more bluntly, can it be saved? What is the truth about the charismatic…
In a way, it’s a “good news” and “bad news“ angle. The good news: the Christian Democratic Union of Angela Merkel took…
It's rare that poems cause such anger and excitement. The only other case I can recall was Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"…
Hurray! Merkel won the day! It took a long night of backroom bargaining, but except for that Tory, David Cameron, all European…
Once in a while there's good news from Europe, yes, even from here in Germany. And because it is so central in…
The party called The Left, which started up so hopefully four years ago and soon became a strong progressive force in German…