Michael Brenner is a distinguished professor of history at American University in Washington, D.C., and holds the chair of Jewish history and culture at the University of Munich, Germany. His latest book is In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism.
Michael Brenner
By Michael Brenner
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Opinion My Holocaust survivor parents would be appalled by what became of their American dream
80 years after liberation, has the bastion of liberty they idolized changed irrevocably?
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Opinion A CNN host apologized for comparing Trump to Nazis. But are there legitimate analogies?
On Monday night, CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologized for comparing President Trump to the Nazis. A week earlier, on the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Amanpour had compared Trump’s continuous assault on truth with the Nazi atrocities, triggering a storm of outrage from Jewish institutions worldwide. CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour invokes the murderous Nazi reign of…
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Opinion ‘Only a racist believes in race:’ On Germany’s failed attempt to erase race
The first time I was asked about my race was when I came to the U.S. as a Ph.D. student in history more than thirty years ago. One of the questions in Columbia University’s application form was about race. I had to think about which box to check. I knew I was neither Black nor…
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Opinion Building Jewish Life on the Rubble of the Berlin Wall
The French writer François Mauriac is quoted with the sentence, “I love Germany so much that I am glad that there are two of them.” This was pretty much the attitude among the Jewish community in Germany, in which I grew up in the 1970s and ’80s. The Jews of postwar Germany felt protected by…
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