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German history

Activists pose on a "United To Stop Trump" cardboard wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany to urge Americans abroad to vote, on Sept. 23.

Trump’s win: The view from Berlin

Global Politics

America’s election results were announced on the same day Germany marks the fall of the Berlin Wall. But unlike some of Donald Trump’s US critics, Germans are very careful to avoid drawing parallels between the president-elect and their past.

A still frame from a film shot by American doctor Ralph H. Major showing a German Nazi event in 1933 or 1934.

In which Adolf Hitler creeps into your home movies

Culture
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