I was an exchange student in Germany in the 1990s. The American values I promoted back then are today more alive in Germany than in the USA.
As a former student of German and a research intern at the Holocaust Museum, I can’t help but be deeply anxious about the rhetoric and rise of Donald Trump. That the top of the Republican ticket winner of the 2024 US presidential election is drawing comparisons to Hitler is no surprise. From stoking fears about…