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

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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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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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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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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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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German pol conducts anti-Muslim campaign
September 3, 2010 By Victor Grossman
BERLIN -- The "mosque menace" is not confined to lower Manhattan or the United States. In many European countries similar alarms are sounded.
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Painful birth of a new German president
July 5, 2010 By Victor Grossman
Political machinations abounded during the chosing of Germany's next president.
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Stalemate on the Rhine and quagmire in Berlin
June 18, 2010 By Victor Grossman
Things are really happening in Germany - politics and economy in upheaval, and no one can tell what's next.
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