Mark Ehrman

Obama: "Ich Bin Nicht Ein Berliner"

Mark Ehrman
“You’re not going to be able to bring that in.” The fat blonde girl, American as her blue jeans, is pointing at Barbara’s shoulder bag. “They said you can’t carry anything in.” She waddles off into the human stream before we can find out who actually “said,” and how ”they”......
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It Can't Happen Here (Again)

Mark Ehrman
The specter of Czech-born Holocaust orphan Saul Friedlander receiving Germany’s most prestigious literary award at the flower-decked altar of Frankfurt’s Church of St. Paul offered as much irony as could be found in the nearly 400,000 titles at the Frankfurt Book Fair a short distance away. “In this church,” intoned......