Victor Grossman

Victor Grossman is a journalist from the U.S. now living in Berlin. He fled his U.S. Army post in the 1950s in danger of reprisals for his left-wing activities at Harvard and in Buffalo, New York. He landed in the former German Democratic Republic (Socialist East Germany), studied journalism, founded a Paul Robeson Archive, and became a freelance journalist and author. His latest book, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee, is about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990, the tremendous improvements for the people under socialism, the reasons for the fall of socialism, and the importance of today's struggles.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman

Culture

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.
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World

Fascist AfD gains, but fails to enter governments in German elections
September 3, 2019 By Victor Grossman And John Wojcik
A path forward exists to keep the extreme right out of the state senates in Saxony and Brandenburg.
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World

Germans brace for fall showdown with their new breed of fascists
August 13, 2019 By Victor Grossman
While Trump attacks immigrants in America Europe’s fascists push for electoral victory in several German states.
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News

Playing tug-of-war in world politics can make everyone lose
July 25, 2019 By Victor Grossman
The resistance to war and fascism is beginning to win a few battles, however.
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Opinion

How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?
July 22, 2019 By Victor Grossman
Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."
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World

Berliners fighting to save everything from their homes to the planet
April 26, 2019 By Victor Grossman
People on the march are a common sight here lately. A big majority are young.
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Politics

Huge youth turnout for International Women’s Day in Berlin
March 18, 2019 By Victor Grossman
There’s plenty to fight about and people can be moved to action - hopefully with active participation of The Linke.
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World

Hundreds of thousands march in Berlin against the right wing
October 19, 2018 By Victor Grossman
Hundreds of thousands, representing many groups, organizations and prominent individuals marched, under the slogan “Unteilbar” (Indivisible).
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