Victor Grossman, an outspoken critic of capitalism, was once an Army private named Stephen Wechsler. He has died at age 97.

I've always thought I was a first-generation American with a German background. At 58, I applied for dual citizenship, but I learned my father became an American after I was born. That meant I've been ...

After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

At 58, I applied for dual citizenship, but I learned my father became an American after I was born. That meant I've been a German my whole life; I now feel closer to my heritage and my dead father.