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The Education of an Antifascist Intelligence Worker (2026)

Ten years before Hitler came to power, university student Hugo B- was examining the changing nature of journalism.

Author’s note: I’m taking a (very) few liberties with my translations of Hugo B-’s writing and postwar public speaking, as I...

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The current election’s Wal-o-Mat asks voters to respond to 38 statements. Here, it’s: “Germany should give further military support to Ukraine. (Agree - Neutral - Do not Agree)” The second statement is: “State financial support should conti...

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New Lessons from the Past, Starting with Last Week

Just got much-needed new lenses. I can actually see well for the first time in almost two years…. (CC-ID: Topper Sherwood)

BERLIN (July 13, 2026) — I went to so many gatherings last week I’ve been shunned by the Berlin Society of Hermits....

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35. Troupe31: Berlin, Blackened by the Reichstag Fire

In this final chapter, 20-year-old actress Ingeborg Franke tells how Troupe31 “keeps the flame alive” despite all of its creative theater workers being exiled from Berlin after 1933.

The smoke of last year’s Reichstag fire continues to obs...

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34. Troupe31: Reception of ‘Who’s the Dumbest?’

Listen now | Twenty-year-old Actress Ingeborg Franke describes the work of the theatre cooperative, Troupe31, as its members perform their last revolutionary play, in February 1933.

OUR PLAY “Who’s the Dumbest? opened on the night of Febru...

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    Veteran journalist for Associated Press, TIME, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, Smithsonian pubs & other US/German clients, Sherwood writes about courageous thinkers of 20th-century art and literature, including “activists” of the Avant Garde/Modern.

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