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The purpose and destiny of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia

Jun 8, 2022 | Editorial

By Sigrid Ingeborg Weidenweber as presented at the June, 2009, International Convention of Germans from Russia at Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, and published in the Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.

The predicted war

Mar 9, 2022 | Editorial

As I watch the columns of cold, hapless refugees move into Poland, my soul recoils. These pictures allow memories, long repressed to rise in my consciousness. I see a mother with two toddlers, the picture of my own mother twenty-four-years old, holding my sister in...

Afghanistan, land of woe, land without peace, land without hope

Aug 18, 2021 | Editorial

On your TV screens, you see the pictures of horror—women, children hastening, lucklessly stumbling, and men running in terrorized panic toward Bagram Air Base. This base was, with its airport, the only way out, the way to freedom. Behind them, in howling pursuit, a...

The republic needs a miracle—or it will be no more

Mar 9, 2021 | Editorial

It took me a long time to finally conclude that to truly understand humanity, those belonging had to be classified in terms of psychological proclivity. Perhaps, arriving so late at this understanding was my reluctance to categorize humans as if they were groups of...

Well, well, well! The democratic response to COVID

Feb 21, 2021 | Editorial

I could say I told you so, yet modesty forbids. Therefore, I will just remind us that at the beginning of the Covid 19 affair, I wrote an article about the outrageous amount of power accorded the governors and mayors to deal with the “viral threat”. That article was...

Woe is US

Jan 31, 2021 | Editorial

I have wanted to stop writing for some time now. The words do not flow as easily as in previous years, and I sometimes ask myself, why do it? What is now a chore, was once easy, for content seemed to be dictated to me. However, as I see my country taken over by people...