Weimar ist Wunderbar
When one hears the word Weimar, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the famous and ill-fated Weimar Republic, that heady and turbulent era between 1919 and 1933 in which art, experimentation and hyperinflation dominated in inter-war Germany. Weimar holds for Germany a much deeper and significant historical meaning, however. It was during Weimar’s golden age, referred to in Germany as the “Weimar classic” period, in which Goethe wrote Faust and Schiller wrote his famous plays and poems and gave the city its name.

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The Iberian Rio de Janeiro
If you love Spain but it´s time to escape the hectic big-city hustle and bustle of Madrid or Barcelona, come up and relax while walking along San Sebastian’s stunning beachfront and crescent-moon bay.

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Fly from Paris to Germany Without Ever Leaving the Ground
The brand new high-speed train connection which just went into operation between Paris and Strasbourg now gets travellers to Germany in no time. A new trans-European high-speed train network is now in the making and should be completed by 2015.

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Is Germany’s Dream Island a Paradise Lost?
Just a short 130 mile train ride from Hamburg, Sylt is famous for its incredibly long beaches, its pure ocean air, the wandering sandbanks (Wanderdunen) and picturesque lighthouses.

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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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