Public Transport in Berlin, Germany
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
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part VIII
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part VII
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part VI
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).…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part V
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part IV
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part III
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part II
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…
From the Collapse of the Communist Regime to the Unification of Germany Part I
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…
Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part V
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…
Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part IV
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,…
Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part III
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…
Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part II
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…
Germany During the War 1939-1945 Part I
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…
Germany Forms of Settlement Part III
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…
Germany Forms of Settlement Part II
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…
Germany Forms of Settlement Part I
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…
Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part IV
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…
Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part III
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…
Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part II
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…
Germany History – The Affirmation of the Predominance of the Electorate Part I
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…