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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.

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By blitzkriegastra
September 22nd 2008

Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin!!!!

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Zum Wohl die Erste!

Fangen wir doch mal mit einer kurzen Tagesbeschreibung an! Vorgestern hatte die Streckenverteilung ja schon für den ersten und einzigen Streit der Tour gesorgt, aber da Step und ich ja vernünftig und unwissend waren, konnten wir uns mit Joschka einigen. Streitpunkt war die Sitzverteilung bei der Einfahrt in Hönow, da Joschka unbedingt in Hönow einfahren wollte, was ja nicht ganz unverständlich war, aber doch nicht so lustig, wie die Einfahrt von zwei Arabern! Auch für dieses Problem fanden wir eine Lösung: Joschka fährt bis Hönow und kurz vor Joschkas Haus werden irgendwo nochmal die Plä [View Full Entry]

By Jengonda
September 22nd 2008

Berlin 9-21/22

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Victory in Berlin
Brandenburg Gate

Cologne (Köln) 9-19-08 Greetings from Deutschland!! After an uneventful flight over, Köln appropriately greeted me with an anti - Neo-Nazi protest of 40,000 people. It seems these extremists thought it was a good idea to hold a Congress in this voraciously liberal and diverse city. The response was fierce. Taxi and transit drivers refused to transport them, hotels cancelled their reservations, and a group of them who managed to get on a riverboat tour were trapped on the water for hours waiting for angry protesters to subside. Even the local police were unsympathetic. Representative [View Full Entry]

Sometimes you have to take a picture of yourself

By Mitch and Dorina
September 19th 2008

Tour of East Berlin

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Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate located in Pariser Platz (Paris Square). It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Today, i... [more]

We went on a tour yesterday and here are some of the sites. Majority of the tour was done in East Berlin as that's where most of the significant historic landmarks are. This post will be short and sweet, so check out the pictures section for a running commentary of the places we visited. Dorina [View Full Entry]

By Jule
September 19th 2008

Last night at home

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kurz vorm Packen

So, here I am. Die letzte Nacht zu Hause. Wuuuuuuuu. Und krank bin ich auch immer noch. Das wird was werden morgen... Na mal schau'n. Aufgeregt bin ich auf jeden Fall. Und traurig meine Familie und Freunde zu verlassen. Aber auch sehr froh, diesen Entschluss durchzuziehen. (Na ja, noch bin ich nicht dam da kann ich ja viel erzählen^^) Vielen Dank nochmal an alle, die gestern bei der Abschiedsfeier dabei waren. Ich hatte riesigen Spaß. Man mag es mir zwar nicht unbedingt angemerkt haben, aber es ist die Wahrheit :) So, nu mach ich auch schon wieder Schluss, ich werd noch [View Full Entry]

Gruppenfoto, und ich ja soooo scheiße aus^^

hier begann sich die rote Nase zu bilden

By Mitch and Dorina
September 17th 2008

The Journey to Berlin

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Bode Museum

Guten Tag! Departing Brisbane International Airport: We arrived at the airport about 10:30, spent a bit of time with mine and Dorina’s family and then head off down to customs, duty free and boarding. After a failed attempt to convince Dorina that a $600 Tissot watch was a good idea for my wrist we went to board the plane which was to take off at 13:10. Because I haven’t been on a plane for about 15 years I was really looking forward to playing with all the stuff and pressing all the buttons I could. That however wore off after a [View Full Entry]

By bangers
September 16th 2008

Curry 36 (Berlin)

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Curry 36
The BEST fast food in town.

We arrived at Merringdam U-Bahn Station mid morning it was cold, real cold, and did our best follow the directions to our hostel. Unfortunately I had forgotten to write to down the address of the place, all we had were directions that looked like they were written in German and put through a translation program on the Internet, not good. Half an hour to forty-five minutes later we arrived. The place looked clean, but a bit bland. We were staying in a 6 bed dorm, our room mates were a Canadian couple and a strange Italian guy, Marco, who was in [View Full Entry]

By snapshotpoet
September 16th 2008

visiting home

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tattoo

Donnerstag abend bin ich völlig entnervt in hamburg angekommen. keine lust auf die stadt. war mit a. verabredet. erstmal gezofft, wegen dem HH/B ding, dann wars noch ganz ok. freitag mittags gings dann schon wieder besser. mittags in die stadt gefahren. gegen 19oo mit v. zum baumarkt gefahren und modell-bau-sachen zu kaufen. abends mit t., s. und l. mario kart gespielt und bier/wein getrunken. nice. später noch mit j. lange in der küche gesessen und gequatscht. nachts kam i. noch auf die idee, die anlage aufzudrehen und party zu machen. das hab ich ihm schnell ausgetrieben........ samstag [View Full Entry]

By indianajo
September 13th 2008

First we take Berlin...

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Café Sur

Thought I put up my Berlin pics... [View Full Entry]

By Dewz
September 11th 2008

Hello Hello!!!

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Amsterdam Bathrooms
The complete glass walls of a bathroom in amsterdam... kind of awkward.

Hello Hello!!! Well I've been living in Berlin for two weeks, and I think that the easiest way to keep tabs on me is to start this blog... this is for you, Mom and Dad! We are having a very good time here. Berlin is very different from any city that I've been to in the U.S. They are extremely eco friendly here. Gas is about 9 American Dollars a gallon here (I still have yet to see a gas station), so many people cannot afford to have cars. I probably almost get run over a bicycler every day. People in [View Full Entry]

By snapshotpoet
September 10th 2008

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gestern mittag a. zum mittagspausenkaffee entführt. danach aufn kudamm gefahren und ein bißchen shoppen. a. im h+m getroffen und festgestellt, dass ich nächsten DO schon wieder so richtig nach hamburg fahre. schluchz. i like it here so much. als ich nach hause bin mal wieder den doofen ersatzverkehr vom halleschen tor zum kotti nehmen müssen. erst kam da ewig kein bus. dann war einer da, an dem haben die ewig irgendwas rumprobiert. zweite bahn kam an, alle versuchten sich in den eh schon überfüllten bus zu stopfen. und da es kurz vor 6 war, war natürlich auch noch stau auf dem [View Full Entry]

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