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Germany is one of the world's leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, to the west by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic.
Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, containing of 16 federal-states (Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation or "Bund".
The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 nations, and a founding member of what is now the European Union. It is the largest country in surface area in Central Europe. More...
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The IG Farben Building or the Poelzig Building was built from 1928 to 1930 as the corporate headquarters of the IG Farben conglomerate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is also known as the Poelzig Ensemble or Poelzig Complex, and previously as the IG Farben Complex, and the General Creighton W. Abrams Building. A competition to design the building was won by the architect Hans Poelzig. On its completion, the complex was the largest office building in Europe and remained so until the 1950s.
The building was the headquarters for research projects relating to the development of Nazi wartime synthetic oil and rubber, and the production administration of magnesium, lubricating oil, explosives, methanol, and Zyklon B, the lethal gas used in concentration camps. After WWII, the IG Farben Building served as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Command and became the principal location for implementing the Marshall Plan, which largely financed the post-war reconstruction of Europe. The state apparatus of the Federal German Government was devised there. The IG Farben Building served as the headquarters for the US Army's V Corps and the Northern Area Command (NACOM) until 1995. The US Army renamed the building the General Creighton W. Abrams Building in 1975. More...
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Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog), by Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1817
Germany news
- The Nord Stream pipeline was officially inaugurated by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French Prime Minister François Fillon on 8 November 2011 at the ceremony held in Lubmin. Spiegel 2011-11.20
- Berlin state election, 2011 - Klaus Wowereit of the SPD is re-elected as Mayor. The FDP is voted out of the Berlin parliament, while the Pirate Party is voted in. [ ] 2011-09-18
- German Bundestag allowed Preimplantation genetic diagnosis. 2011-07-07
- German government plans total nuclear shutdown by 2022. Article 2011-05-30
More Germany-related news in English can be found at Deutsche Welle, Tagesschau and Der Spiegel.
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- 1220 – Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1710 – Birth of composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 1897 – Birth of astronomer Paul Oswald Ahnert
- 1967 – Birth of tennis player Boris Becker
- 2005 – Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany
Did you know...
- ... that during the Spanish–American War, German admiral Otto von Diederichs was ordered to attempt the acquisition of colonial concessions in the Philippines, using SMS Kaiserin Augusta (pictured) as his flagship?
- ... that the composition by Graham Waterhouse Der Handschuh (The Glove) for cello and speaking voice, after Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh, is designed for one performer?
- ... that musicologist Erich Katz, a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in Dachau, had a long friendship with Carl Orff, despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
- ... that the melody of the closing chorale in Bach's cantata Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim, BWV 89, is doubled by the horn, two oboes and the first violin?
- ... that John Stewart, a regular tenor with the New York City Opera and then the Frankfurt Opera, recorded the part of Oronte in Handel's Alcina opposite Cristina Deutekom in Carnegie Hall in 1974?
- ... that 49% of German military losses happened in the last 10 months of the war in Europe?
- ... that Jewish athlete Lilli Henoch, winner of ten German track and field championships, was murdered with her mother by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
- ... that the first stanza of the hymn Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, asking the Holy Spirit for the right faith most of all, is documented in German in the 13th century, and the later three relate to faith, love and hope?
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