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We have seen sometimes when European politics and what happens in Europe impacts America, specifically 2015, what happened there was as impactful as what happened on our own border, because there were images of migrants flooding into Europe by the boatloads of millions of Muslims and Africans flooding into Europe illegally, crossing over bridges and crossing over, over, over, over, over walls and construction to stop them.

You had the mass rapes of German girls in Berlin on New Year's Eve that one year.

And then you had the mass terrorist attacks that were all over Belgium and Paris and I'll never forget it.

There was an episode of The View where Sunny Hostin, who is like the most racist person on television today.

they would

never do Berlin or Munich.

It has to be something very German sounding.

It's got to be something you can really get your teeth and lips around.

i think i think two things one i don't think you have to fake that you're successful you know having caring about your self-image and presenting yourself properly just it's a service to yourself Right.

Doesn't mean you have to go buy a fake Rolex and, you know, walk around in Berlin with the Ritz, you know, with a fake, you know, glass of whatever, you know, aged whiskey.

Right.

You don't have to do that.

you know, to, to the point of being social and communicative is, is important.

You know, I, I tell people I'm an introvert and people laugh at me because I'm traveling and taking meetings back to back at the markets and putting myself out there.

And I've always been a lot more of a quiet person and just to myself, you know, I'd rather go camping in Sequoia than be at a club at four in the morning in Berlin, you know, both are great in their own ways.

Right.

But by 1961, us air force in Europe was at absolute center at the absolute center of cold war tension.

The Berlin crisis erupted in 61.

Then the wall, when the wall went up and that, that posting and Germany in that precise moment was at the sharpest edge of the cold war confrontation.

This makes the air force commendation medal during and after this tour, nearly certain, um, During that time so it's also putting in when these medals would have been awarded based on his tour and when he was there so so there's the probability you know of that happening and then.

I'm from Pakistan, and I've been living here for a few years for my master's program.

I just graduated from the Hertie School of Governance here in Berlin.

I wanted to ask you a question, Dr. Sanyanish there.

Given your time as a minister in Pakistan, and now at a global health leadership position.

Okay.

All right.

So, the question came from Honorable Akua Dansua, who is not only a former member of parliament, former ambassador of Ghana here in Berlin, and an esteemed member of the Unite Parliamentarians Network, and her question is very important.

Because we need parliaments to be active for many reasons.

In the last third of the 19th century, indeed, wholesale baptisms constantly occurred.

but we have reliable figures for the last two or three decades only, and I am therefore inclined to doubt the statement of Jacob Frommer that towards the end of the 20s and last century, something like half the Jews of Berlin had gone over to Christianity.

Equally improbable is the view of Dr. Vermeer, rabbi in Munich, who, in a paper which he recently read, stated that altogether 120,000 Jews had been baptized in Berlin.

The most reliable figures we have are all against such a likelihood.

According to these, it was in the 90s that apostasy on a large scale first showed itself, and even then the highest annual percentage never exceeded 1.28 in 1905, while the average percentage per annum since 1895 was 1.

Nevertheless, the number of Jews in Berlin who from 1873 to 1906 went over to Christianity was not small.

Their total was 1,869, precisely.

The tendency to apostasy is stronger among Austrian Jews, especially among those in Vienna.

Although not Hamburg.

That's more like Berlin.

I heard Hamburg's

just like mid.

Hello and welcome to the American Council on Germany's weekly Kaffeepause.

This is a podcast for anyone who wants to know what's abuzz in Berlin.

Each week, Steve Sokol, the president and CEO of the ACG, speaks with a journalist based in Germany to talk about the issues shaping German politics, business, and the transatlantic relationship.

Hello, my name is Steve Sokol and I'm the President of the American Council on Germany and I'd like to thank you for joining us for today's Café Pause.

Today we're trying something a little bit different.

The Café Pause is generally an opportunity to check in with a German or an American journalist based in Berlin to talk about the political mood and the current developments in Germany.

But some of our Kaffeepause fans in Germany have said that they would also be interested in a format that unpacks U.S. politics.

And that's what we will try to do today.

In the last third of the 19th century, indeed, wholesale baptisms constantly occurred.

but we have reliable figures for the last two or three decades only, and I am therefore inclined to doubt the statement of Jacob Frommer that towards the end of the 20s and last century, something like half the Jews of Berlin had gone over to Christianity.

Equally improbable is the view of Dr. Vermeer, rabbi in Munich, who, in a paper which he recently read, stated that altogether 120,000 Jews had been baptized in Berlin.

The most reliable figures we have are all against such a likelihood.

According to these, it was in the 90s that apostasy on a large scale first showed itself, and even then the highest annual percentage never exceeded 1.28 in 1905, while the average percentage per annum since 1895 was 1.

Nevertheless, the number of Jews in Berlin who, from 1873 to 1906, went over to Christianity was not small.

Their total was 1,869, precisely.

The tendency to apostasy is stronger among Austrian Jews, especially among those in Vienna.