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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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Areas in Lower Saxony: Aurich | Braunschweig | Clenze | Cuxhaven | Göttingen | Goslar | Hannover | Hildesheim | Lüneburg | Norderney | Uelzen | Wolfsburg | Wüstewohlde

Riding Rocinante V: Wüstewohlde (Kms 2800)
August 16th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony » Wüstewohlde
Never walk into a supermarket wearing a Lycra cycling suit. Or, at least, never walk into a supermarket wearing a Lycra cycling suit with no pants underneath. Or, at least, never walk into a supermark ... 7 photos [full story]

An der rauhen See
6 days ago: Silke y Raphael published a blog
An der rauhen See
August 29th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony
Hallo, hier einige Impressionen unseres ersten längeren Familienurlaubs, den wir klassisch in einer Ferienwohnung an der Nordseeküste verbracht haben - Eliah hat den Wind, das Meer und natürlich de ... 11 photos [full story]

wilhelmshaven
29 days ago: snapshotpoet published a blog
wilhelmshaven
August 7th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony
Montag ging es nach einem anstrengendem wochenende auf nach wilhelmshaven. vorher sollten noch ein haufen bücher zurück in die bibliothek nach harburg. ich zu spät los, alle öffentlichen verkehrsmitte ... 7 photos [full story]

August 3rd 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony » Hannover
Perhaps an unlucky day? The previous night, although I went to bed at 10, some of the others in the room (the two Irish gus) must have come in after midnight. As a result of that, the hot weather, a ... [full story]

56 days ago: mordrek021 published a blog
Goettingen
July 10th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony » Göttingen
Upon arrival at Goettingen train station we were greeted by our hosts and whisked through the countryside to a little village called Sieboldshausen. As the house was elevated slighty it had a fantasti ... [full story]

Going Going Gone
57 days ago: Gillie published a blog
Going Going Gone
July 10th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony
When does it stop being so bloody exciting and start getting enjoyable? I have the feeling to spontaneously combust any second. Tidal waves of nausea are coursing through my whole body. And that altho ... 7 photos [full story]

58 days ago: malfunction published a blog
Hameln
July 9th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony » Hannover
Greetings from Hameln (Hamelin) hoe of the Pied Piper. We are staying at a friends place until tomorrow. In the morning we take the train to Amsterdam. Meanwhile, here´s some pictures from Berlin. ... [full story]

June 27th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony
Seit zwei Tagen habe ich Stress, weil in meinem Kalender für morgen eingetragen ist: Probepacken. Das zeigt schon, also, der Eintrag zeigt schon, wie notwendig das ist. Frage ist nur: warum? Irgendwan ... [full story]

89 days ago: semper e published a blog
Day 2: Uelzen - Haue
June 4th 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony
The weather has cleared up, but the tent is still wet when I pack it. I wake up with a heavy headache, probably due to the weather. I ride parallel to the B2 to Bad Bevensen. Here I make a stop ... [full story]

89 days ago: semper e published a blog
Day 2: Bergfeld - Uelzen
June 3rd 2008  Europe » Germany » Lower Saxony » Uelzen
I planned on leaving at around 8 o'clock, but if you leave for three months you always remener something else that needs to be done. At half past ten I decide to ignore everything else and just ... [full story]


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