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These cities and Germany in general are safe cities to visit. Like most European cities there is a risk of pick pocketing, and mugging in public places   The greatest risk of this happening is at airports and railway stations where unattended luggage may well go for a walk!

Emergency Medical Treatment In Germany

Germany has a good standard of healthcare and arrangements with several countries including the UK nationals for the provision of emergency medical treatment. If you are travelling from the UK you will need a European Health Card.

Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Outbreak In Germany

.Outbreaks of this virius were confirmed in the summer of 2007 in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. As a result of this  The Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (stated that Avian Influenza has become an epidemic in some parts of Germany.  

The risk to humans from Avian Influenza is thought to be very low.  The UK Government have issued the following advice : '

'As a precaution you should avoid visiting live animal markets, poultry farms and other places where you may come into close contact with domestic, caged or wild birds; and ensure poultry and egg dishes are thoroughly cooked. ''

The defeat of Germany at the end of WW1 was followed by The Treaty of Versailles. Two key aspects of this treaty were fundementally flawed. The first which established the Kingdom of The Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed Yugolsalvia in 1929) buried issues which where to come to the afore in The Balkan Wars in the 1990s.

The second flaw was the commitment by Germany to pay reparations to the Allies for the cost of the WW1. This 'penalty' on a bankrupt and defeated nation gave the indigenious population of Germany very little hope of a lifestyle on or above the poverty line.Against this backgound the Nazis movement, with its promises to rebuild a better country, flourished and in 1933 Hitler gained power.

Contrastingly in 1945 when the Nazis where defeated the American financed Marshall Plan invested money in West Germany to ensure that the country's defeat did not faciltate the rise to power of another extremist organisation. Hitler and The Third Reich committed crimes against humanity in Germany and Europe on a scale beyond comprehension as most people who have visited the death camp at Auschwitz & Birkenau will agree.

Germany 1946 - Today

The Marshall plan was effective and the Germany economy was rebuilt to became one of the strongest economies in the world. In 1950, democratically elected Germany politicians formed an economic alliance with France - one their former enemies - when they signed The Treaty of Paris. This cooperation is regarded as setting the precedent for the 1957 Treaty of Rome in which Germany and France along with four other European countries founded what is now todays European Union. In November 1989, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, symbolised the end of the cold war and the unification of East and West Germany.

Post War German Responses To Holocaust

It is debateable whether any individual or nation can apologise for the actions of a man like Hitler. Not to apologise can be seen as being callous whilst given the magnitude of The Holocaust any words could be viewed as being insincere. Against this backgound succesive German leaders have in their own ways expressed publicly their regrets about what happened.

In 1965 West German President Heinreich attended the 20th Anniversary of the liberation of Belsen.

In 1970 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt (who won the Noble Peace Prize for his efforts to develop better relations with Communist controlled countries), visited Warsaw in Poland. Whilst there he fell on his knees on the Path of Rembrance in front of The The Monument of The Ghetto Hero which is dedicated to the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw .

In 1985. The West German President Richard Von Weizsaecker delared "Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present and whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to the risk of new infection".

On January 27th 2005 at a ceremony at Auschwitz to commerate the 60th Anniversary of it's liberation, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said "We carry this burden in mourning but also with a serious sense of reponsibility".

On 11th of May 2005 at the opening of The Holocaust Memorial next to The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin he repeated the sentiment saying "Today we open a memorial that recalls Nazis Germany's worst and most terrible crime - the attempt to exterminate an entire people.

Editorial Comment The Treaty of Versailles and therefor Britain and France in part, empowered Hitler and it is not and should not be possible for the world to forget what the Holocaust involved. Gerhard Schroeder's recollection that this was Nazis Germany's most terrible crime' is correct. It was, but as he indicated - it was the crime of Nazi Germany not todays Germany .

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