It's a small world. During Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Berlin he was also awarded a honorary degree by the Theological School of the Protestant Church of West Berlin. The theologian and pastor handing over the degree during the ceremony is part of our family history. We still have a picture of both of them during the ceremony.

Here is a more detailed itinerary of MLKs visit to Berlin. https://www.aacvr-germany.org/dr-kings-visit-to-cold-war-ber...

This article was very educational. I did not know that Martin Luther King Sr. was such a prominent person, and the connection of the King family with Berlin. Thank you for posting it.

Oh how did I know the bigots would jump in these comments.

Hacker News is well on its way to become the Nazi bar by allowing the thinly veiled racism to survive.

A slowly boiling frog.

Thank you for sharing this. Really insightful and enlightening.

Succinct and englightening - I had no knowledge of his visit to Berlin (East & West).

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Great article. Oru view of history is all to common insular and compressed - it puts things in context that MLK was walking around Berlin at the same time as Hitler.

Not just odd, but ironic that an American president who claims to admire MLK would fail to acknowledge him and in doing so helped create an optical divide in appearance between himself and the past American leaders, whom he did acknowledge, that had visited Berlin.