German U-Boat Tours
A handful of World War II U-Boats can still be viewed in Germany today and they offer a fascinating insight into that extremely deadly U-Bootwaffe technology so feared by the Allies during the war.

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The Enemy is Watching
Military Liaison Missions or MLMs were established in Germany after World War II to avoid misunderstandings between the four victorious Allied victors. This is a short history of the MLMs with an emphasis upon the American one located in Potsdam near Berlin.

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The Rickshaw Rage at the Reichstag
Try and leave your old-fashioned notions about what a rickshaw is behind you. One doesn’t have to be all too concerned about exhausting the velotaxi drivers in Berlin. These modern rickshaws often have features like auxiliary motors and ultra-lightweight fiberglass bodies and have chalked up more than their fair share of flashy advertising campaigns.

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Road Food to Go
In a country as huge as the United States, you can only spend so much time on the road - if you´re not a truck driver, that is. And that means that no matter how much you might like to, you will never have the time you need to thoroughly explore America´s back roads and highways for authentic American road food culture. That is why it´s good to know that there are other folks out there willing to find these culinary folk artists for us.

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Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport
Although this the world´s first commercial airport was once admiringly described by British star architect Lord Norman Foster as being the "mother of all airports", Tempelhof Airport, Berlin´s well-loved "City Airport", will soon be closing it´s hangar doors for good. A symbol of the Berlin Airlift and the once so highly-held German-American friendship, a nearly bankrupt Berlin city and state government no longer has enough money to keep the historic airport open.

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Ghost Rocket Ghost Town: Germany’s V2 Test Center at Peenemunde
During World War II, the small German town of Peenemünde on the island of Usedom, located directly on the Baltic coast near the border between Germany and Poland, became home to the high-tech center for research and testing of the infamous unmanned V2 ("blockbuster") guided missiles, as well as the V1 ("buzz bomb") models.

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