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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, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.

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. 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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• The discovery of the earliest known work of figurative art, a Venus figurine dating to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, in Baden-Württemberg is announced. (LA Times) 2009-05-15
• At least fifteen people are killed in a school shooting in Winnenden, Germany. (DW) 2009-03-11
  
• Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (pictured) is named Germany's Federal Minister of Economics and Technology. (IHT) 2009-02-10
• German legendary model train manufacturer Märklin goes bankrupt after the failure of long-running restructuring efforts. (Der Spiegel) (Financial Times) 2009-02-04
  
  More Germany-related news in English can be found at Deutsche Welle, Tagesschau and Der Spiegel.
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• 1854 – Death of physicist Georg Ohm
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• 1898 – Birth of composer Hanns Eisler
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From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that in 1844 Friedrich Gottlob Keller (from Krippen, Germany) invented the wood-grinding machine for papermaking, being first to successfully produce paper from a wood pulp?
  

  
• ... that Polar 3, the first German airplane to reach the South Pole in December 1984, was shot down by Polisario Front rebels over Western Sahara on its way home in February 1985?
• ... that in 1935, the uniform of the national-conservative Bismarckjugend was banned in Germany?
• ... that the Wild Rugby Academy, formed in 2007, aims to enable Germany to participate in the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
• ... that the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich?
• ... that the Soviet Union provided a site in northern Russia for the secret Nazi German naval base Basis Nord as a part of a broader bilateral relation which included strategic and commercial agreements?
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