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Michael Wehle
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It was a horrific assassination. I'm not suggesting that your post remembering him should go into the details, but "killed by police" could also cause people to imagine him in a shootout, and there was no shootout whatsoever involved, just murder by Chicago police.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Killed by police" is a charitable way to phrase it - shot multiple times through the wall in a pre-dawn raid, in bed next to his eight-month pregnant partner, drugged the night before so he wouldn't wake up when the police shot him.
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So just like Italian dockworkers refuse to load ships with weapons destined for Israel, Berlin workers will at 18:00 on a Friday evening refuse to, what? Refuse to go home quite yet? 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
He remembered these guys said there was a fair portion of the population who saw them all as serving the Kaiser, simply because they were of German heritage, and spoke German. Like who would be silly enough to see someone as an enemy simply because of language and culture? 🤔Madness, right?
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Perhaps relevant (it's relevant to me, anyway): I remember my dad telling me as a kid that he remembered being a kid growing up in New York State and listeníng to his father talk to his uncles (all second generation German immigrants) about the anti-German sentiment in WW I.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I've enjoyed theater. Music. A *lot* of films. You know they show the English language film series about WW II? You can (I have) see Burt Lancaster narrate documentaries about WW II.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
No need to bring in "what about Gaza", though. Russisches Haus is a cultural center. I've been enjoying their programs for years. I've taken Russian language courses there. I've eaten a lot of borscht in the café. I've used the library.
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is what I get when I click on the link you posted.
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM