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Artist Hans Gross: Recruited to fight in a 'cultural war'
He was hungry and desperate. He'd do anything to stay in the game.
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Blaming the Victim: The Shootings at Alexanderplatz and Chausseestrasse
During the German Revolution of 1918-19, violent incidents were politicized. Together with unwitting Social Democrats in government, right-wing military…
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Topper Sherwood
Remembering John F. Kennedy in 1960: When American politicians were...different
This year's Democrat and Republican campaigns could have taken more cues from JFK's 1960 race in West Virginia.
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Topper Sherwood
How Pro-Soviet Spies of the 'Red Orchestra' Laundered Money During WWII
It helped to have American friends in Switzerland.
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Topper Sherwood

October 2024

The Unusual Musical Career of German-American Composer Stefan Wolpe
An enlightened Berlin child musician learns to play in the dark.
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Topper Sherwood
Free-to-All Berlin Story: US Election, 2008
This is a video made by German-American journalist Topper Sherwood, documenting Berlin (Americans Abroad) reactions to official confirmation that Barack…
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Couples in Nazi resistance group maligned as 'Communists' after WWII
Recent media products are telling new, compelling stories about man-and-wife Berlin couples who dedicated their lives — and lost them — to resisting…
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Berlin opera director defends arts funding and creative freedom
An interview with Barrie Kosky, director of Berlin's Komische Oper
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September 2024

Remembering 1989: Bug-Man Berlin
He grinned, standing tall as a graffiti monument to the creative weirdness of the West.
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Topper Sherwood
The modernist idea factory: Oscar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Classroom
Master and students discuss how a postwar society understands and teaches practical applications of creative work.
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'There but for fortune, goes your land or mine'
The song by Phil Ochs (1963) is accompanied by children's artwork from war zones across Middle East (since 2003), as well as Ukraine and Czechoslovakia…
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Intellectual 'Sunday Circle' of artists comes to power in Hungary
After their brief reign, they generally slipped away to the West -- to the West's benefit
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