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The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (the Stasi or MfS) was the internal security service in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and its headquarters was in the Lichtenberg district on Normannenstraße. Today it is used as a Stasi Museum.
Next to Friedrichstraße (Berlin) station is the old entrance building to the platforms for the tracks that went from West to East Berlin
Well… if you're looking for something really bizarre… and maybe you know what a Folly is…. (or you have children)… go here! The Strawberry Country. It really doesn't make sense at all to be honest...
The Dampflok Museum is located in Hermeskeil. But this is a special museum and something you would not expect with that name…
Zwickau once housed the Trabant factories and there was (which is now also unfortunately gone) a real Trabant museum! (not to be confused with the August Horch Museum, which is another museum).
You might not recognize the place ... but here, the German surrender was signed on May 8, 1945. But uhh ... that surrender was already signed on May 6 in Reims? Well… yeah… sort of.
In Hotensleben there is still a piece of the former East / West German border. Special is that this part of the border was / is right next to the village.
In May 2021 we went back and forth to Poznan Poland to handle / start some highly necessary (business) things. But yes ... if you are there anyway ... must ...
The Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord is quite a special place and in my opinion undervalued… It was once a blast furnace and after it stopped (around 1985) it was eventually converted into a “leisure park”.
If you've seen some World War II films, you must have also come across the Reich Party Rally Grounds as a place where "mustache man" did quite a few speeches ... and you might know it from the photos ...
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