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.
April 30th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Hello all,
Sorry it's been so long, since the last update, but we have had difficulties finding computers and finding the time to get down to this.
We left Katrina in Denmark on April 28, and he ... [full story]
May 6th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Hey all,
I'm very excited that it is now May, and I will be even more excited when it is July.. July 12th, to be exact. The weather here is getting more and more beautiful by the day, and it really ... 21 photos[full story]
May 2nd 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Sunday morning 13 October 2007
RE: The Hamburg Ballroom
Hello Dirk Jan
There were lots of druids at the heavy metal club last night who handed in the blankets and pieces of animal fur to the ... 3 photos[full story]
April 30th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg Hey all,
I know, it has been far too long. Life continues to get busier by the day. Let's see... what has happened.
Finance continues to be extremely stressful because of this term paper- how my ... 13 photos[full story]
April 29th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Hallo ihr fleißigen Leser,
der Reiseblog ist nun vollständig. Ich musste so einige Einträge hier zu Hause machen, da das mit den Internetcafes immer so eine Sache ist.
Für diejenigen, die einen Mail ... 1 photos[full story]
April 27th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Morning: Construction sounds again at 8am!! God, these people get to work so early!! Slept late last nite and got woken up by them again. Today the kids go to their kindergarten and we will take a wal ... [full story]
April 24th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Morning: Got woken up by lots of sounds, the construction work upstairs, the kids talking and people walking outside the house. What a lively place! Today we will all take a day trip out to the harbou ... 14 photos[full story]
April 24th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Morning: This morning we woke up at 9am to have breakfast w Simone before she left for her work and have a quick chat w her. She left for work and we got ready to leave at abt 11am. We planned to cove ... 9 photos[full story]
March 31st 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Hi everyone,
We've been delayed in sending this out. So enjoy the short and newest blog.
We were off to Hamburg for a quick 1 night weekend getaway. We stayed at a nice hotel in the midst of t ... 13 photos[full story]
April 18th 2008Europe » Germany » District of Hamburg » Hamburg Through the program that I studied with for the semester we traveled as a group on a weeklong excursion first to Hamburg and then to Copenhagen, Denmark. The first three days were spent in Hamburg, w ... [full story]
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