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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 history class, when other students would talk “in a very mean way” about World War II.