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Has the class struggle returned?
Musings on Marx in the 21st Century
Dec 4 • 
Katja Hoyer

November 2025

What can we learn from Hitler's blood?
On the controversy around the dictator's DNA
Nov 30 • 
Katja Hoyer
Workers, Students and Socialism
What remains of East German promises to Mozambique?
Nov 27 • 
Katja Hoyer
An East German in the City of Archbishops
Notes From Braga about religion, identity and nationhood
Nov 23 • 
Katja Hoyer
From Bismarck's Reich Hounds to Kohl's Pig Stomachs
A potted history of German diplomatic blunders
Nov 20 • 
Katja Hoyer
German Women in Uniform
Will there be female conscription in Germany?
Nov 16 • 
Katja Hoyer
An Acquired Taste: Germany's Favourite Crisps
...and how their story begins in Ireland
Nov 13 • 
Katja Hoyer
"Liberation? Strange word."
The aftermath of World War Two
Nov 9 • 
Katja Hoyer
They would have killed Kafka
On Prague, memory and the man who dreamt the century’s nightmares
Nov 6 • 
Katja Hoyer
The German Godfather of Horror
Or: The terrible tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Nov 2 • 
Katja Hoyer

October 2025

Josef Mengele: Truth and Fiction
Thoughts on a new film about the notorious Nazi doctor
Oct 30 • 
Katja Hoyer
Can you produce art in a dictatorship?
Or: East German art in the dustbin of history
Oct 26 • 
Katja Hoyer
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