White Debt

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Alexandra Senfft

Thomas Harding tells the story of the Demerara rebellion, and explores the legacy of Britain’s role in slavery and questions of personal and national responsibility.
BBC, Radio 4, March 6, 2022
Thomas Harding interviewing Alexandra Senfft, starting 29:00 minutes
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Germans push back against anti-mask Nazi resistance comparisons

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Alexandra Senfft

Opponents of Covid-19 restrictions embrace idea of fighting totalitarian German state
Derek Scally, The Irish Times, 23/11/2020
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The German model for America

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Alexandra Senfft

The long and public reckoning that followed the Holocaust shows a path forward for a United States that desperately needs to confront its racist past.

“In her [Senfft’s] estimation, even now, the Nazis have been “othered,” as if the evil hadn’t taken root in Germans’ own families and neighborhoods. Those who did confront the crimes of their ancestors could not have been prepared for what that realization would feel like…
In American textbooks and schools and families, the same phenomenon that Senfft described of Nazism is true.”
By Mattie Khan, Vox.com
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Negacionismo

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Alexandra Senfft

“Alexandra Senfft from Germany says to “The Clinic”: “Human Rights are universal and should be globally recognized. If we don’t acknowledge the crimes of the past and remain silent or worse, deny what has happened, new injustice will be done. Denial makes us accomplices of crime. It is our duty to stop denial in order to protect people and to safeguard moral and legal standards.”
In: De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de negacionismo?, Catalina Llantén The Clinic, Chile, 31.1.2020
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