Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
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It’s been 100 years since the murder of Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
A new exhibition captures the moment when Germany started to rebuild her national pride, in the Himalayan mountains.
The third repatriation of human remains in August this year was another missed opportunity for reconciliation between Germany and Namibia.
Under an authoritarian government, freedoms can come at a steep – and lasting – price.
Writings at the time of WWI aimed to construct a religiously diverse and conflicted America into a virtuous, Christian nation. This narrative continued in the cemeteries for the war heroes.
Representatives of Namibian communities affected by the 1904-1908 genocide have filed a class action against Germany in the US seeking reparations for atrocities committed by Imperial Germany
The Berlin terror attack at the end of 2016 will have major political implications for Germany’s elections this year and an uneasy European Union, writes a German studies scholar.
In reelection bid, Merkel’s not just up against a xenophobic, nationalist party in Germany. In the wake of Trump’s election, liberal democracies around the world hope she’ll defend them, too.
Mourning a death is natural and necessary, but sometimes politics gets in the way of grief.
Would a reprint of Mein Kampf impact a digital generation reared on “Hi Hitler” spoofs?
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