This text is gabbreviated version of the lecture Adolf Wolfram on September 10, 2024 in an event organized by the May 8 Working Group I Federal Association West-East German Company e. V. held in Berlin. (jW)
At the turn of 1934/35, in exile forced by fascist Germany, Bertolt Brecht wrote in “Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth”: “The great truth of our time (with recognition…