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

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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World

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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World

Germany, Afghanistan, Gaza
June 1, 2010 By Victor Grossman
On the first such occasion in German history, President Horst Koehler, only a year into his second term, told a sudden press conference Monday that he was immediately resigning.
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Germany’s Left Party defies split predictions
May 17, 2010 By Victor Grossman
At the second congress of Die Linke, The Left, on Saturday, 558 delegates disappointed media "experts" by sticking together and moving ahead.
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World

Greece and Angela Merkel
May 11, 2010 By Victor Grossman
BERLIN (May 7) - Pity poor Angela! She's caughte between the rock of Greece and its economic woes, and the hard place of the May 9 elections in Germany's largest state.
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Germany: Left goes in, right goes out – or does it?
May 10, 2010 By Victor Grossman
BERLIN -- The state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the valleys of the Rhine and Ruhr is far and away the most populous German state, with 18 million people.
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