German history 
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
10/27/19
What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later
by James Carroll
As the 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War approaches, it should be obvious that there’s been a refusal in the United States to reckon with a decades-long set of conflagrations in the Greater Middle East as the inevitable consequence of that first American invasion in 1990.
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SOURCE: The German Times
Accessed 8/22/19
The history of “German Angst” could serve as a lesson for today’s democratic societies
by Frank Biess
The Federal Republic is a remarkable democratic success story and the only such story in German history.
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SOURCE: Time
7/19/19
A Group of German Leaders Tried to Kill Hitler in 1944. Here’s Why They Failed
by Albinko Hasic
For a brief moment in history, Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators thought they had succeeded in turning the tide of World War II and potentially saving thousands of additional lives.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
6/6/19
Hitler told the world the Third Reich was invincible. My German grandfather knew better
by Robert Scott Kellner
As a political organizer for the Social Democrats, Kellner had opposed the Nazis from the beginning, campaigning against them throughout the duration of the ill-fated Weimar Republic.
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5/23/19
The Fall of Communism in TV’s The Weissensee Saga
by Walter G. Moss
The most impressive educational aspect of The Weissensee Saga is that it presents a realistic and convincing portrait of the differing lives and reactions of East German individuals in the final decade of the GDR’s existence.
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5/2/19
The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide
by David Carlin
In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/1/19
A German Bratwurst Museum Unwittingly Starts a Holocaust Controversy
The Bratwurst Museum had unwittingly stepped into a long-running debate about what to do with the thousands of places that were once part of the Nazis’ extensive machinery of death.
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SOURCE: The Paris Review
1/15/19
A Lost Piece of Trans History
The recent republication of The Third Sex by the Bibliothek rosa Winkel revives lost voices from Germany’s queer past and recovers a remarkable piece of trans history.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/14/19
Beyond Rosa Luxemburg: five more women of the German revolution you need to know about
by Ingrid Sharp and Corinne Painter
There were other women who played an active role in the German revolution in cities across the country.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/14/19
How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses
by David Gunderman
Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.
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