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Katja Hoyer

Katja Hoyer

Historian and writer

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Katja Hoyer is a historian and writer. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. She writes a Substack newsletter called ZEITGEIST.

To understand today’s political violence, look to the 1970s

In many ways, the left-wing terror of the 1970s is as instructive for our times as any analogy to the 1930s.
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