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Public Transport in Berlin, Germany

August 18, 2022August 21, 2022collegetoppicks
Berlin Parliament

People complain a lot about public transport in Berlin, but it’s actually pretty good . There are 10 subway lines, countless trams and buses and the S-Bahn. According to aviationopedia,…

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East Germany Economic Sectors

February 6, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
East Germany Economic Sectors

German Democratic Republic. – Agriculture. The importance of the sector has progressively decreased, so much so that its share in the formation of the national product has dropped from 14% to 8% (and…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part VIII

February 5, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 8

Transfer expenses amounted to 140 billion marks in 1991, rising to 180 billion marks in 1992; a quarter of the federal budget (i Transfer expenses amounted to 140 billion marks…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part VII

February 4, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 7

The problem of inserting the GDR into the EEC (greatly simplified by the adoption of the unification procedure according to Article 23) was set by the Dublin European Council on…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part VI

February 3, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 6

Economic unification was central, with the prompt introduction of the BRD currency in the GDR (a promise that had been one of the strengths of the March 18 election campaign).…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part V

February 2, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 5

The party in which the renewal from the grassroots began most rapidly, also accelerated by the religious environment, was the CDU-Est, with the new leader L. de Maizière. Although it was the…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part IV

February 1, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 4

An essential obstacle remained, that of the USSR. The traditional Soviet position, which insisted on the existence of two German states with two conflicting social and economic systems, rejected the…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part III

January 31, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 3

The revolution in the GDR had suddenly given topicality to the problem of unity of the Germany, first of all in the eyes of the Germans themselves. After the first…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part II

January 30, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 2

One of the first protests in September, in East Berlin, had been directed against the fraud of the municipal elections of 17 May 1989. Although it was, as usual, single-list…

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From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part I

January 29, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany 1

Still on 7 October 1989, the SED leadership had celebrated the 40th anniversary of the founding of the GDR with large land and naval military parades, indicating it as a…

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Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part V

January 28, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany During the War 1939-1945 5

The double Anglo-American landing in France soon led (11 September 1944) the first American army to cross the German border near Aachen. It was possible to erect a new line…

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Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part IV

January 27, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany During the War 1939-1945 4

From the spring of 1944 the German military situation deteriorated to a catastrophic extent. The systematic destruction of the inhabited areas of the cities gave a collapse to the morale,…

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Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part III

January 26, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany During the War 1939-1945 3

After the failure of the winter of 1941, at the beginning of 1942 he made the supreme effort to provoke a decision in the war – as he put it…

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Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part II

January 25, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany During the War 1939-1945 2

The Balkan campaign that began on April 6 was originally intended only to lighten Italy. Hitler would have preferred Yugoslavia to join the Axis as a whole. And in fact…

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Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part I

January 24, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany During the War 1939-1945 1

Yet, Hitler continued to disbelieve the Allies’ will to war. He was strengthened in this belief, when during the following weeks the Western powers did not even make an attempt…

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Germany Forms of Settlement Part III

January 23, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany Forms of Settlement 3

The city, the “civitas”, is characteristic of civilized peoples: it is a center of economic and intellectual activity; that is, it corresponds to a high economy. It can only be…

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Germany Forms of Settlement Part II

January 22, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany Forms of Settlement 2

Elba and the Saale mark a very important historical-ethnographic border also with regard to the locations, as the border embankment raised by Charlemagne to face the Slavs, is not very…

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Germany Forms of Settlement Part I

January 21, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany Forms of Settlement 1

Now we have seen how differences in the way of building the rural house corresponded quite well to the dialectal differences. We must pay no less attention to the way…

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Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part IV

January 20, 2022July 7, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany History - The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate 4

According to Equzhou, Charles IV reaped the fruits of the alliance with the electors when they, in derogation of the rules of the Golden Bull, agreed to elect the eldest son…

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Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part III

January 19, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany History - The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate 3

According to Cancermatters, the selfishness of sovereign and princes had prevented the solemn proclamation of the independence of the Empire from the Papacy and from France, made in Rense, eight…

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Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part II

January 18, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany History - The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate 2

The history of Germany after the end of the interregnum had hitherto been characterized by a resumption of monarchical authority, oriented however towards the particular interests of the princes assumed…

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Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part I

January 17, 2022January 22, 2022collegetoppicks
Germany History - The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate 1

The general need to get out of a situation, which was becoming more and more confused, pushed the electors to put an end to the interregnum, by giving the crown…

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