Germany

Germany’s pyrrhic victory over the Berlin Wall

November 12, 2019 By Victor Grossman

In the end, the odds were against the GDR. But its defeat doesn't mean the system it was building, socialism, was proven false.

Thoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise

November 8, 2019 By John Wojcik

East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.

German left wins Oct. 27 vote but far right makes big gains

October 29, 2019 By John Wojcik

Although the neo-fascist AfD made major gains the Left Party came in first with its biggest vote ever anywhere in Germany.

Thirty years later the Berlin Wall is again being “remembered”

October 15, 2019 By Victor Grossman

Why does the right wing all around the world continue to beat up on the long-gone German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?

Will musical and film triumphs spill over into German politics?

September 18, 2019 By Victor Grossman

On August 24, the famed Berliner Philharmoniker (the Berlin Philharmonic) offered an amazing performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Brandenburg Gate.