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'Baseball bat years' continue to haunt eastern Germany, 30 years on

'Baseball bat years' continue to haunt eastern Germany, 30 years on

In the 1990s, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany experienced a wave of far-right racist and political violence. In Germany, this period is known as the "baseball bat years" – a dark period that still haunts the country today.

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