Victor Grossman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman
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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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An in-depth look at Germany’s Left Party congress
June 5, 2012The media were keen for a real wide split in the party. In truth, a lot of the members feared the same.
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German elections: The good, the bad, and the ugly
May 14, 2012In a way, it's a "good news" and "bad news" angle.
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In Germany, the Pirates making waves
May 2, 2012Germany's energetic young party, the Pirates, held its party congress last weekend in the northern town of Neumünster. The media overflowed with reports, almost uniformly friendly.
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Germany aggrieved about Günter Grass
April 24, 2012Günter Grass, a Nobel Literature Prize winner, causes anger and excitement with his poem "What Must Be Said". And the subject matter is war and peace.
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All hail the (German) chief
March 19, 2012It's hard to decide: which article on Germany's new president, East Germany's (the former German Democratic Republic's) pastor Joachim Gauck, was more misleading.
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