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At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...

The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German Jewish History and Culture is a landmark academic institution in German Jewish history. With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the ...

The opening line of L.P. Hartley's seminal coming-of-age novel The Go-Between reads, "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." That sentiment resonates throughout writer and ...

A painting of German revolutionaries marching on Berlin in March of 1848. Exiled revolutionaries known as "the 48ers" would go on to to settle in in Milwaukee. Listener Rick Fuhry was researching his ...

Even without knowing he’s written an entire book on the subject you know right off the bat that University of Texas Permian Basin Associate Professor of History Roland Spickermann is passionate about ...