Victor Grossman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman
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Why were there no mass shootings in the now-defunct (East) German Democratic Republic?
January 25, 2023People who loved hunting did it as often as they could but never feared being gunned down on the streets.
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Despite differences on war in Ukraine, ceasefire and negotiations a must
January 17, 2023Complicated domestic and foreign policy politics in Berlin and Germany cannot obscure the need to line up behind a movement to end the war.
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Season’s Greetings from People’s World Berlin correspondent
December 23, 2022A Jewish non-believer tells us what he loves about this season celebrated by so many.
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Germany faces stark choices as it celebrates its ‘unity’
October 11, 2022Expectations, after the GDR was absorbed into West Germany, have not been met.
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The war in Ukraine is behind much of the distress in Germany
September 21, 2022Only peace can tame a soaring cost of living including the surging prices of energy, food, and housing prices.
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70 years since I left the U.S. Army for East Germany
August 29, 2022Why on that fateful day I took off my army jacket, stepped into and swam across the Danube River.
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Will we ever know why the war in Ukraine was really launched?
July 18, 2022Why did Russia send an army into Ukraine? Was it pure imperialism? A terrible miscalculation? Did its leaders see it as a dire necessity? Or was it a baited trap?
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Ukraine war divides German ruling class—and the left
July 13, 2022For years, Germany, though officially unified, has been torn between two forces. The war in the east has now put the divide front and center and threatens to tear the left apart.
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