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.

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‘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 ...