Germany's classical capital also has dark side
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Weimar is considered the capital of classical German culture, home to Goethe, Schiller and Bach.
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For nearly 60 years, the weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel has tweaked the powers that be in Germany, with aggressive investigative reporting and a prickly, iconoclastic style that has made it the most feared and ...
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The most potent symbol of the divided Germany, the Berlin Wall, came down the previous year.
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Wladimir Kaminer, the author of several best-selling books about Russian immigrants in Germany, has become an emblem of Berlin's emerging hybrid culture.
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The German language isn&#39;t normally thought of as being pretty, but that hasn&#39;t stopped the Goethe Institute from holding a competition for German&#39;s most beautiful world.
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A growing rift between east and west Germany, fuelled by government spending cuts, is poisoning the nation's atmosphere 14 years after German reunification, two top diplomats say.
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The name Dresden evokes two overlapping images in me-an old German city known for its beauty and the horrible destruction it suffered during World War II.
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Spurned by the Nazis,  rehabilitated by communists and now restored to its former  splendor, the Bauhaus school in the eastern German town of  Dessau has had a turbulent history.
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More than a decade and a half after the   collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened   up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the   Cold War.
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Legroom meets lebensraum in this Teutonic tie-up.
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Germany is grappling with an unexpected  consequence of the industrialized world's aging population: how  to integrate its immigrant pensioners.
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NETTERSHEIM, Germany  - Concealed in a thicket of brambles in hills southwest of Cologne, out of sight of the nearby motorway, an eerie relic of Germany's Nazi past has been neglected for over 60 years.
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An investigation of alleged German tax evaders has fueled angst not only among wealthy Germans, but also among politicians facing an angry public
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The spectacular ruckus caused by the showing of Friedrich Christian Flick's collection in Berlin proves that art cannot cleanse a name tainted by a sordid past.
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It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" Â a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth Â faces the ax.
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One of Germany's most precious libraries has been severely damaged by a fire in Weimar, the capital of German classical culture.
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Plans for what would be one of Germanyâs largest mosques are rattling an ancient city to its foundations.