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Article: Twins semi-fraternal. (a West German and a East German city have been twinned)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 20, 1986
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Twins Semi-Fraternal
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For the first time since Germany was divided forty years ago, a West German city and an East German one have been twinned. Ironically (or perhaps on purpose) the cities are as far away from each other as possible, as if their respective governments were wary of the arrangement. Saarbrucken, in the Federal Republic, is within a stone's throw of the French border, and Eisenhuttenstadt is next to the Polish frontier, far in the eastern confines of the Communist state. Both are steel towns. Eisenhuttenstadt was built new after the war and briefly named Stalinstadt. Saarbrucken has ...
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