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Bollmann, Ralph

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

die tageszeitung - Germany | 01/02/2008

Are Europeans too fat?

Ralph Bollmann can live with a more extensive food-labelling requirement: "The big question is, 'How much influence should the state have in this area?' OK: it has to enable consumers to make informed choices about nutrition, in face of an overpowering food industry. That means, for example, comprehensive information on packaging, and maybe even warnings." But Bollmann adds: "There is no injury to third parties from unhealthy food – that's the difference from tobacco consumption. All those who favour using disparaging rhetoric or even bans to impose the aesthetic measures of the academic middle class on the new proletariat should keep this in mind."

die tageszeitung - Germany | 13/08/2007

The debate about the GDR Order to Fire

Ralph Bollmann reflects on why this document, the contents of which are nothing new, is causing such a stir: "This poses the question of why the existence or non-existence of this 'Order to Fire' is causing such uproar. There's a remarkable parallel between this and the fruitless search for a 'Führer's order' for the murder of Europe's Jews, which went on for several decades. As incomparable as these two affairs are, in both cases the public, fixated on the search for such a historic document, entertains excessively naïve notions about decision-making processes and chains of command. The alarming thing about apparatus such as the GDR border regime is precisely the insidious interplay of group pressure and rash obedience, rewards and punishment which could not be adequately explained by a single brief instruction - even if it did exist."

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