Background: As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
July 26th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria Waiting to sort out my RoboGeo software license before posting more goodies to Flickr. Stay tuned, all. ... [full story]
July 24th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria The town we're staying in, Nördlingen, has in its name a silent umlaut. More or less. I have confirmed this with a few locals.
I suspect the Germans and/or Bavarians find it as difficult to prono ... [full story]
July 22nd 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich K...so last weekend was spent squiring Barnes the Younger 'round Munich. We flew out of London Friday morning and into the beautiful Munich airport (really-its beautiful!). Scott plugged in his trusty ... 13 photos[full story]
July 21st 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria Our time in Germany had a strong family focus.
Silke, Michael and their boys Uwe, Heiko and Sven live near Stuttgart in Bietingheim. Our time with them was very family orientated , with lots of ... 22 photos[full story]
July 20th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich Last I updated I was heading towards the black forest, I know this was only a few days ago but so much has happened since then. We have been pretty much living life by the hour instead of by the day. ... [full story]
July 20th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich Neuchatel Switzerland was a perfect relaxing day last wednesday after our hike through the alps. We had a nice dinner there too, a fisherman´s catch salad. Wow, that seems so long ago. We ended up in ... [full story]
July 20th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria Our first stop in Germany was Lake Constance. We camped there for one night, and than moved on to some friend's house, Silke and Michaels. They have 3 kids called Uwe, Heiko and Sven. We arrived there ... 8 photos[full story]
July 14th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Oberstdorf Ahojte,
Tunaka som zverejnil vyber z mojich fotiek urobenych zaciatkom jula v Allgau a Mnichove.Dufam, ze sa budu pacit.
B. ... 62 photos[full story]
July 18th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich Munich! The land of the... well, beer.
We arrived at Munich Hauptbahnhof in the afternoon and trammed over to our hostel, 10 minutes away. It was called the Tent, and we didn't really know what to ... [full story]
July 17th 2008Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich MARTA LOVES MUNICH doo dah doo dah It;s one of those places that really suprises you. I didn't hear that much about it beforehand and was a tad apprehensive about going there because of Dachau and it' ... [full story]
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