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

World

Immigrants, welcome and unwelcome in Europe
September 8, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Desperate families facing ever new obstacles from weather, hunger and thirst to barbed wire fences - these pictures hammer at emotions for one tragic week after another.
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World

A world of contradictions
August 17, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Germany has suffered under a heat wave and damaging drought. Now thunderstorms are predicted. Can any parallels be drawn?
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World

Germany’s anti-immigrant politicians are today’s Know-Nothings
August 3, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Today, unfortunately, we are blessed with anti-immigrant Know-Nothings in many countries.
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World

Schäuble prescribes medicine for Greece he first tested on East Germany
July 16, 2015 By Victor Grossman
The end of the GDR eased the way for racists and open Nazis. A defeat of Syriza and the hopes it raised could open the door to a strengthened neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement.
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World

Greeks kick bankers and austerity politicians in the teeth
July 6, 2015 By Victor Grossman
This courageous vote hit usually smug politicians and bankers so hard you could almost hear their teeth rattle.
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Opinion

Confederate flag, like the swastika, has no place in our future
June 29, 2015 By Victor Grossman
What is behind "Stars and Bars," Calhoun Streets and Robert E. Lee statues-lynchings and mass incarceration, police bullying and murder of African Americans.
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World

Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor’s degree at 102
June 24, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.
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World

Changing captains in Germany’s Left Party
June 11, 2015 By Victor Grossman
The Left Party is the only opposition force with any real clout in Germany, so a gathering with representatives of its 60,000 members was important enough.
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