Letter From Berlin: Sober Jubilee For the Other 'Forward' From: Forward | Date: October 12, 2001| Author: Weidner, Anselm | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Forward

10-12-2001

LETTER FROM BERLIN: Sober Jubilee For the Other `Forward'

It's September 27 in the Berlin district of Treptow. The red flags with the
letters SPD, for Social-Democratic Party of Germany, and blue ones
emblazoned with the number "125" and the word "Vorwarts," are waving along
the Spree River in front of the Arena, a huge former factory hall and
municipal bus garage.

It's not by chance that the Social Democrats chos...

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