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Wegner congratulates Berlin Marathon on its 50th birthday. At the start of the Berlin Marathon in 1974, the success could hardly have been imagined. 50 years later, 50,000 people are running through the capital.
Jan 28, 2015 · Berlin’s Jüdisches Museum presents an eye-opening and emotional journey through 2000 years of Jewish history in Germany, not just the 12 years of Nazi horror that such exhibits often focus on. Find out about Jewish cultural contributions, holiday traditions, the difficult road to emancipation, outstanding individuals like the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and jeans inventor Levi Strauss, and the fates of ordinary people and families.
Berlin is Germany's capital and biggest city. Within the city limits, Berlin in 2022 had a population of 3.7 million. Berlin panorama from the Siegessäule in 2013: Reichstag building with cupola (far left), TV Tower and Cathedral (centre left), Brandenburg Gate (centre)
Mar 9, 2024 · A guide to Berlin, Germany's most creative city. Following decades of turmoil during the 20th century, the German capital blazes with colour and invention, busy forging monuments to its new ...
The area of Berlin was one of the first to abandon East Low German as a written language, which occurred in the 16th century, and later also as a spoken language. That was the first regiolect of Standard German with definite High German roots but a Low German substratum apparently formed (Berlinerisch may therefore be considered an early form of Missingsch).
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Jun 20, 2022 · The DDR Museum opened just across from the Berlin Cathedral in 2006 and is a complete repository for the German Democratic Republic, documenting the good, the bad and the downright kitsch. Among many things you can check out the decor and furnishings inside a typical flat in an East German “plattenbau” concrete tower block and see what it was like to drive a Trabant.
