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Article: Germany's gems: A selection of favorite spots away from the big cities.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2003
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Byline: Gary A. Warner
Though its roots go back to the Dark Ages, the Germany of today is barely a teen-ager. The country's borders have been drawn, erased and redrawn over the last two centuries by wars (as often as not of its own making). Chunks of what was once Germany are now in France, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and other European countries.
But the biggest border changes came in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Communist East Germany was melded into capitalist West Germany. The ensuing years have been bumpy, but the new Germany is an always-intriguing mix of the ancient, classic and modern eras.
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