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Meanwhile, many years have passed. During these years I’ve visited Prague (former Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) many times, and saw it change. I have business relations in the neighbourhood of Dresden (former DDR) en I’ve met a friend who grew up behind the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n

A part out of nostalgia, a part out of interest to know how the former DDR (GDR) is doing now, over 20 years after ‘die Wende’, I had a short vacation in Th\u00fcringen, Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt. A short vacation, but a huge amount of photos, so I will be splitting them into multiple blog posts, which I will publish over the next days.<\/p>\n

Following blog posts are part of the report of this trip: The Iron Curtain<\/a>; Border Crossing Marienborn<\/a>; Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau<\/a>; Bunker Kossa<\/a> and Road trip in the former DDR (GDR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"