Victor Grossman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman
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Memories of Pete Seeger in East Berlin
February 3, 2014In 1945, every Saturday night, we sang his songs, with those of Woody, Leadbelly, Paul Robeson and Ernst Busch, at the Folksay square dance and song sessions in the Furriers' Hall.
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“GroKo” Politics – No real change for Germany
January 15, 2014Some have suggested the German "Word of the Year" should be "whistleblower" - in the escalating Denglish language here breezily called "Neu-Deutsch" ("New German").
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Germany: Fireworks past, present and future
January 3, 2014BERLIN - New Year's Eve in Germany means fireworks!
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Low wage workers on the move in Germany too
December 9, 2013This is Burger King - it could be in Augusta, Maine, or Anaheim, California, and the fatty Whoppers taste the same. But it's not; most customers here speak German.
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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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