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

Berlin: Peace demonstration, political parties
October 12, 2016 By Victor Grossman
On Saturday, near my Berlin home, I joined a colorful, long-planned, all-German demonstration for peace.
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News

Bayer-Monsanto merger can’t erase Nazi chemists’ past
September 22, 2016 By Victor Grossman
Our correspondent in Berlin explores Bayer's troubled past and its links with the Nazis' most notorious death camp - Auschwitz.
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News

Extreme right racks up big vote totals in northern Germany
September 8, 2016 By Victor Grossman
The Alternative für Deutschland racked up a shocking 21.9 percent of the vote on September 4th in the north German state of Mecklenberg.
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News

Compromise and coalitions prompt soul-searching for German left
August 17, 2016 By Victor Grossman
When Die Linke joins the Social Democrats as junior partner, its vote drops; the reason is simple: the left abandons its role as fighting opposition.
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World

Germany: Drones and new tones
June 27, 2016 By Victor Grossman
On June 11, 5,000 people came by bus, train, car, a few by bicycle, defying nasty weather to circle the Ramstein Air Base and demand it's closing.
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World

Growth of far right party cause for alarm in Germany
June 7, 2016 By Victor Grossman
Most alarming, since Germany is the strongest, most central European country, is the strength of its far-right Alternative for Germany.
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World

Who is to blame for Europe’s refugee “problem”?
May 12, 2016 By Victor Grossman
Europe today, though not dead, is in deep disarray, heart-rendingly for very many and menacingly for the world.
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World

Right and left in German state elections
April 11, 2016 By Victor Grossman
The vicious slogans of the AfD and its fascist accompanists as well as to the guilty leaders of the old parties are still steering Germany into ever more dangerous waters.
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