Victor Grossman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman
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Today in labor history: Germans ponder “All Quiet on the Western Front”
December 5, 2013On December 5, 2010, hundreds left a movie theater in Berlin, mostly silent and deeply moved, though the film they had seen was first released in 1930.
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Forming a German government: Bumper cars for the Bundestag?
November 26, 2013The noise is terrific and everyone zooms back and forth, round and round, clashing with everybody else. And there may be no real winner -- except perhaps the man at the cash register.
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The New York Times describes an East German model city — and is fair!
November 6, 2013The author did not embroider what she saw or heard. The result did tend to make me angry, but not because of prejudice or dishonesty; it was because of the story she told.
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Visitors to Snowden and visitors to Berlin
November 5, 2013Three men flew from Berlin to Moscow, were taken in a car with tinted glass windows to a secret location - where they met Edward Snowden. The meeting was very interesting. So were the three visitors.
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Germany: the latest ups and downs
October 21, 2013An American woman has been honored for her heroic work against the Nazis in World War II.
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Merkel victory in Germany: Was it really so big?
September 25, 2013What rejoicing! What a triumph for Angela Merkel, the East German girl who has really made it to the top. But was it really such a big win?
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As elections loom in Germany, few support Obama on Syria
September 9, 2013BERLIN - Although Germany has had a resurgence of neo-Nazi attacks on refugees, U.S.-Germany relations have garnered much media attention with a possible U.S. attack on Syria and the National Security Agency spying scandal.
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Berlin still hopes for an end to all war
August 12, 2013The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days in Germany have been disturbed by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA.
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