John Green
Most of us were convinced that the collapse of communism in 1989 would see an end to the Cold War that continually threatened to become a hot one.
John Green reviews a new book by Christine Lindey
The life of Felicia Langer, who died this year, is a shining example of a Jewish Israeli who championed the cause of the Palestinian people
Even if highly exaggerated in the western press, the economic and political crisis in Venezuela is real
Aldous Huxley once said: 'Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.' The British government in 1945 and, half a century later, the government of a reunited Germany both chose to hide and 'rebrand' the realities of nazi concentration camps in order to fit political needs over the principle of truth. John Green reports
John Green tales a look at the recent, much-hyped German series Deutschland 83
John Green reviews an exhibition focusing on British artists' contribution in support of the Spanish Republican government in its struggle against General Franco's fascist coup in 1936
Reams have been written about how awful and oppressive East Germany was - a virtual slave state with Stasi surveillance informers everywhere. That image was rudely demolished in a curious way the other day
In 1983 the world stood on the brink of a nuclear holocaust. War between NATO and the USSR was prevented by a high ranking NATO official secretly working for the GDR foreign intelligence service
John Green reviews a book written by Hans Modrow, the last prime minister of the German Democratic Republic