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Another Brick in the Wall | Graham Reid | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

The realities of Cold War politics don’t mean much if you are chowing down on sauerkraut and a currywurst in a Checkpoint Charlie eatery

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Escape to Colditz | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Colditz

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, and locations all over Europe will be welcoming visitors who wish to mourn and others who wish to learn, while a castle in Saxony will relive some of the great escape stories of the time.

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Exploring Berlin's Underground | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

In the Berlin underground train station, Gesundbrunnen, there is a green door which thousands of people pass everyday...

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Favourite Hotels Outside Munich | Martin O'Brien | Germany, Bavaria, Munich

Germany's Upper Bavaria offers luxurious retreats like Murnau's Alpenhof and Aschau's Residenz Heinz Winkler as well as more modest inns and gasthauser

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Hunforgiven | AA Gill | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

Time between leaving Berlin’s Tegel airport and mentioning the war: eight minutes, ten at the outside

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Reeping the Benefits of Neon | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Hamburg, Hamburg

Hamburgers follow the rules: they drive safe, keep the city clean, pedestrians wait at traffic lights, and small children eat all their vegetables, but on a 600m stretch west of downtown, they loosen the straps of their lederhosen.

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Stuttgart: Art and Architecture | Neville Walker | Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart

Without Stuttgart there´d be no road movies, no Route 66, no Thelma & Louise, and Janis Joplin would have neither Mercedes nor Porsche

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