Stories about Germany from August, 2007
Czech Republic, Germany: Gastarbeiter
Dr. Sean's Diary writes about labor migrations into and out of the Czech Republic.
Europe: Elimination of Roma in 1944
Peshas Gypsy Gitan Blog writes about the elimination of the Roma by the Nazi in 1944: “The Roma kept very few written records the Generations gone before were remembered and kept alive in memory by word of mouth. Those murdered in the death camps were not only killed but they...
Belarus: Andrei Liankevich
TOL's Belarus writes about Belarusian photographer Andrei Liankevich's exhibition in Dresden.
Russia: Book on Lenin, Stalin and Hitler
The Economist's Edward Lucas reviews a book on “the three monsters of 20th-century Europe”: Lenin, Stalin and Hitler.
Ukraine: “Seeking the Past”
Taras Kuzio writes about his father's recent trip to Germany: a Ukrainian, he was taken there “as a Nazi slave labourer in 1942 and never to return home again until exactly 50 years later in 1992.”