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Altb. (abbrev.) - older building [newspaper ads etc.]
der Altbau - older building, older construction1 Zi. 20 qm Altb.-Wohng. mit Küche, € 160. [Kleinanzeige ( Read more... )

Berlin Marks 20th Anniversary of Wall's FallWorld leaders, dignitaries and thousands of visitors are in Berlin today to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a time to remember the past and celebrate the November day in 1989 that changed the future. Despite the rain, crowds gathered at the Bornholm Bridge, the first ( Read more... )

Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall fallingBy MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer Matt Moore, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

There's another Flicker blog I thought this community would enjoy: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/11/04/experience-history-berlin-1961-1989/ It is about creation of a Flicker Group for "...photographic memories of a divided Berlin ( Read more... )

Hi all - I'm currently an intermediate German student at a College in the USA and we have a project coming up. The assignment is to take a printer paper box (about one and a half feet by two feet maybe?) and "graffiti" it somehow. This project was inspired by the real graffiti of the Berlin Wall. The idea is to graffiti it with something to do with ( Read more... )

visit rothenburg ob der tauber:

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are you guys interested in touristy videos of german towns?
this guy has a bunch of them and i find them pretty well-done.

visit marburg:

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Exuberant, ugly, energetic, funny and hated - Just a few keywords that describe this collection of German propaganda posters from the 20th Century. Check out these 38 posters from 1905 to 1988!

Some German propaganda posters, mostly designers view.

Just some random facts I came across. Are these correct?

The Black Forest is the largest forest in Germany at 6,338 sq km.

The Rhine River is 865 km long.

The Zugspitze is the tallest mountain in Germany at 2,962 m high.

Trier near the Luxembourg border is Germany's oldest city.

The German 'autobahn' (motorways) built in the 1930s were the first ( Read more... )