- Michael Birnbaum
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Michael Birnbaum became The Washington Post’s Berlin correspondent in January 2011, after two-and-a-half years of covering education for the newspaper from Washington. He has also worked at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Birnbaum has a degree in German history. He grew up in Chicago.
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