The Filthiest Village in Europe

The Filthiest Village in Europe traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog" at the brink of gaping coal pits became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology: campaigns by diverse local actors that exposed environmental and economic crises East Germany's political system could not resolve. Notorious by the late 1980s as "the filthiest village in Europe," Mölbis suffocated downwind from the massively polluting carbo-chemical Espenhain plant. Applying a myriad of private collections, int