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

Amid political turmoil, Germans rally against neo-Nazis in Dresden
February 22, 2011 By Victor Grossman
On Feb. 19 over 250 anti-Nazi buses rolled toward Dresden from all over Germany, with some from neighboring countries as well.
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World

Flip-flops and elections in Germany
February 18, 2011 By Victor Grossman
Germany's ruling parties are flip-flopping on everything from Egypt to unemployment as a series of elections approaches.
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World

Germany: Scandals for the Baron and a vote for more war
February 2, 2011 By Victor Grossman
A series of scandals scratched the shining image of the scion of conservative Bavarian circles. But the Bundestag once again defied German majority opinion and voted to continue the use of troops in Afghanistan.
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Peace

Germans ponder “All Quiet on the Western Front”
December 6, 2010 By Victor Grossman
People left a movie theater in Berlin mostly silent and deeply moved though the film they had seen was first released in 1930. This American-made epic had lost none of its extremely emotional appeal. It was...
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World

Germans get rowdy to stop nuclear waste
November 9, 2010 By Victor Grossman
A surprising number of people in Germany are leaving their sofas and demonstrating, angry at being ignored by ruling cliques.
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World

Political climate change a worry in Germany
October 21, 2010 By Victor Grossman
As pressures grow, the normally smiling Angela Merkel looks to anti-immigrant tactics.
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World

Protests, pepper spray rock German city
October 19, 2010 By Victor Grossman
STUTTGART, Germany - A retired engineer of 66 loses an eye, high school kids get beaten, a whole city in a state of near shock and anger - all because of a railroad station and some...
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World

Germans fight nuclear plants, railroad stations, Nazis
September 24, 2010 By Victor Grossman
In the center of Berlin last weekend over 100,000 people demonstrated against the government's deal with giant atomic energy corporations - and there's more.
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