Germany Targets Youth To Quell Extremism. What Can The U.S. Do?
St. Louis Public Radio Gio Hoffmann is a youth trainer for the Network for Democracy and Courage in Germany. “I’ve learned pretty quickly that it’s pretty much impossible to convince someone who doesn’t want to be convinced,” Hoffmann said of the work. This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center ERFURT, GERMANY — Jule Grahmann had heard enough from her classmates. Fellow students at her high school in a small east German city would say mean things about Syrian refugees who’ve resettled in the country over the past five years. And there were the comments in hist...
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