Thilo Sarrazin (February 12, 1945) – economist, former Berlin Senator for Finance, and former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank – is one of the pivotal figures in the history of German…
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world’s second-largest economy and one of the most influential political powers of the twenty-first century. Since its establishment in 1949, the country has been governed by the…
Lev Zinovyevich Kopelev (9 April 1912 – 18 June 1997) was a Soviet writer, literary scholar, and human rights activist. His life is regarded as one of the most remarkable examples of political persecution in…
Kurt Tucholsky (9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was one of the most influential German writers, journalists, and satirists of the Weimar Republic. Through sharp wit, political analysis, and literary precision, he criticized militarism,…
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German carpenter and one of the earliest determined opponents of National Socialism. With his assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler at Munich’s Bürgerbräukeller on…
Belarus has for many years been the focus of international human rights organizations because of the systematic persecution of political opponents, independent journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations. Since Alexander Lukashenko assumed the…
Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936 in Hamburg) is one of the most prominent critics of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). As a singer-songwriter, poet, and writer, he denounced the suppression of freedom of expression,…
What was originally staged as a spectacular liberation strike by then-Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) against alleged “right-wing terrorism” is turning into a constitutional fiasco after more than two years of main proceedings. In…
What government spokespersons previously passed off as “case-by-case evaluation” and “proportionality” has now been unmasked as a cold-blooded system directive establishing an administrative single-party state. An internal, secret “Guideline” issued by the SPD-led Ministry of…
The case of Martin Sichert in the Lower Saxony district of Friesland marks a historical and highly dangerous turning point in the political system of the Berlin Republic. By excluding the elected AfD Member of…
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This oft-quoted bon mot by Mark Twain takes on an oppressive relevance in light of current developments within the Berlin Republic. When we discuss the expansion of…
The masks of the self-proclaimed guardians of democracy have finally fallen. Right at the start of the Berlin summer holidays and shielded from public view by the media distraction of the Football World Cup, the…