Germany
A ragged ragout from Berlin and Swabia
October 29, 2012This bulletin is a mix of items - decent news, and not-big news.
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Three killers and a blurry background
September 21, 2012What connection is there between a sheepishly smiling politician and the mad rage of a bloodthirsty mob bent on murder in a Baltic coast town 150 miles away?
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Berlin: A conference of anti-fascists and the story of a ring
September 18, 2012A small but moving episode marked the regular annual meeting of the German organization Fighters and Friends of the Spanish Republic 1936-1939.
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Kurt Maetzig, master of German cinema
August 21, 2012An extraordinary filmmaker who made extraordinary films and lived to the extraordinary age of 101, Kurt Maetzig died August 8. But he was virtually unknown in the U.S.
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Movies you might have missed: “Fateless”
August 9, 2012The capitalist industrialists of Nazi Germany were instrumental in the political rise and installation of Adolph Hitler as master of Germany.
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