Berlin

Season’s Greetings from People’s World Berlin correspondent

December 23, 2022 By Victor Grossman

A Jewish non-believer tells us what he loves about this season celebrated by so many.

German communists hit out at police brutality on Rosa Luxemburg march

January 12, 2021 By Steve Sweeney

Police have been condemned for brutality after attacking a peaceful demonstration in the capital Berlin with pepper spray.

Will musical and film triumphs spill over into German politics?

September 18, 2019 By Victor Grossman

On August 24, the famed Berliner Philharmoniker (the Berlin Philharmonic) offered an amazing performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Brandenburg Gate.

Berliners win a few battles in their fight for affordable housing

July 29, 2019 By John Wojcik

One tenant says public control “might be the only way that people can afford to be able to live here.”

New York-born GI who defected to the East back in USA

May 22, 2019 By Cameron Orr

Grossman is speaking about his new book: A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. The book tells about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990 and reasons for the fall of socialism...