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Article: Travel: Getaway offers eastern promise; In the final part of his trip to Germany, GORDON BARR goes on a journey of discovery.(Features)
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- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2008
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Byline: GORDON BARR
IT IS nearly two decades since the reunification of Germany.
A whole generation has grown up in a country they have only known as one.
Yet, to most reading this article, Germany's modern history has been nothing if not turbulent, disturbing and fascinating.
Its centuries-old history is just the same and on our seven-night stay in the former East Germany we learned so much about both and, just as important, what the country has to offer in the here and now.
This trip was not about the former East, but you cannot ...