I was an exchange student in Germany in the 1990s. The American values I promoted during my year abroad are more at home today in Germany than in the USA. As a former student of German and a research intern at the Holocaust Museum, I can’t help but be deeply anxious about the rhetoric and…
November 9, 2009, marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was in 9th grade when the news came across CNN that the physical symbol of the East/West divide was on the verge of toppling. And my mother reminded me today while I was reminiscing about the event that I sat for…
Why aren’t more people watching and raving about the “Deutschland” series? The German-language television series, which debuted in 2015 with “Deutschland 83,” was the most-watched foreign-language drama ever in Britain, despite being a flop at home. It follows the descent of East Germany through the eyes of Martin Rauch, an East German agent sent to…