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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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10 weeks ago: Noordsestern published a blog
Was bisher geschah
October 18th 2009  Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Aachen
Vorschnell verbreitet, aber dennoch besser nicht gemacht: Ich bin nicht zurück nach Schweden gegangen. Stattdessen bin ich in Aachen geblieben und feile an Reise- und Wohnungsplänen. Seit dem letzten ... [full story]

Five Countries in One Day!! - Day 1
22 weeks ago: Anna and Dave published a blog
Five Countries in One Day!! - Day 1
July 18th 2009  Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Aachen
Who knew when we left that we would manage so much travelling. The exhaustion is starting to set in but we managed to leave England, travel through northern France, explore Belgium (Bruges and Gent), ... 25 photos [full story]


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Metro escalator
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Prague
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