A German History Lesson

This one for Americans

The Stolpersteine (‘stumbling stones’) for the Kaufmann family - Ewald and Helene; their sons Theo, Kurt, and Julian; daughter-in-law, Johanna, and granddaughter, Gittel. The stones are laid in among the stones at the entrance to the apartment building at Boxhagener Straße 50. Stolpersteine are memorials placed at the last known freely chosen address of a victim of the Holocaust.

Particularly astute readers may have noticed that I skipped a week last week in updating this newsletter.

Like many Americans, I have been preoccupied with the upcoming elections in the United States - particularly the increasingly inflamed discourse surrounding immigration.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has now made ‘mass deportation’ of undocumented immigrants the centerpiece of his platform. Listening to the different interviews and campaign speeches given by him and his running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance - I was struck by the similarities to arguments used here by the Alternative for Germany…