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Travel: The heartland of a nation torn apart by history Home to high culture and Hitler's favourite hotel, Weimar is regaining its former glory amidst social conflict.
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FOR A TOWN with such a resonant name, Weimar is surprisingly
small. Bach, Goethe, Schiller and Liszt all made it their home.
The great Reformation painter, Cranach the Elder, spent his final
year here in 1553. By the 19th century, Weimar had become synonymous
with the Enlightenment. In the 1920s, it was the first home of the
Bauhaus school of design.
I had long wanted to see why so much European Culture flourished
in a place the size of Godalming. The answer, I discovered, lies
partly...
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Small town in a big role: Weimar is Europe's '99 `capital'.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; WEIMAR, Germany _ Though it's only a little larger than the city of North Miami, more than 8 million visitors and some of the world's most talented people are expected to descend on this small German city this year. As 1999's Cultural Capital of Europe, Weimar is playing host this year to a
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Weimar: culture with a dark side
Daily Breeze
; WEIMAR, Germany -- Weimar is considered the capital of classical German culture, home to Goethe, Schiller and Bach. The city was also the birthplace of Bauhaus modernism and of Germany's first democratic republic. But Weimar has a dark side as well. Adolf Hitler was adored here, and the Buchenwald
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Good, evil converge in Weimar
Chicago Sun-Times
; WEIMAR, Germany -- Weimar is considered the capital of classical German culture, home to Goethe, Schiller and Bach. The city was also the birthplace of Bauhaus modernism, and of Germany's first democratic republic. But Weimar has a dark side as well. Adolf Hitler was adored here, and the Buchenwald
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Past perfect; Weimar was once Germany's center of culture and politics
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ... does very well promoting itself and maintains a first-class information center in the Markt, the Market Square where brochures, maps, books and other material may be obtained. The Market Square itself is worth exploring. It is still the site of a food market ...
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NO SOFT TOUCH IN GOAL WEIMAR HOLDS HER OWN WITH THE BOYS HOCKEY TEAM
Rocky Mountain News
; Sara Weimar remembers clearly the day she raised her hand. "I was playing squirts and we didn't have a goalie," the Air Academy High School junior said, recalling her days playing youth hockey. "The coach asked for volunteers and I put my hand up." It was a big decision for a 9-year-old who already
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