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

Icy times and rays of hope in Germany
January 15, 2016 By Victor Grossman
The influx of immigrants and asylum-seekers--over a million in 2015--has split Germany into two nearly equal halves.
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Right wing extremism, not immigrants, the big threat in Europe
December 14, 2015 By Victor Grossman
It is not the refugees who are posing the threat, but rather, those forces whose goals and methods all too vividly recall the rise of fascism 85 years ago.
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World

Refugee crisis exposes Germany’s political crisis
November 5, 2015 By Victor Grossman
The German political scene is in turmoil and such turbulence has opened the way to healthy change, but now, in my view, it can lead to great dangers.
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World

In Berlin 250,000 march against unfair trade
October 13, 2015 By Victor Grossman
It was a day to remember, a date for the record books: It marked a surprising development in German politics!
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World

Germany: predictions after 25 years
October 2, 2015 By Victor Grossman
After 25 years of unification, annexation, or occupation, the only safe predictions in Germany still seem to be the ones about lunar eclipses.
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World

Wars and armament sales behind world’s refugee crisis
September 18, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and other refuge-seekers are caught in a series of mouse-traps.
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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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