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German Christmas tradition of smacking women’s bottoms cancelled
Borkum Lads Club, which has organised the festivities since the 1830s on the North Sea Frisian island, was forced to apologise for “historical actions of past years” and said it distanced ...
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North Sea storm surge brings German ferry services to a halt
A storm surge in the North Sea disrupted ferry services to Germany's North Frisian Islands early on Monday. In Dagebüll, close to the Danish border, the ferry pier was flooded after water rose a ...
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“Island of the ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ – Tourism, Antisemitism, and National Socialism on Langeoog”
How did insular space change under the totalitarian regime? Decentralizing the history of nazism, Jörg Echternkamp (Potsdam/Germany) takes the East Frisian island of Langeoog as a case study on the ...
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Geography KS3: A child led introduction to Sylt in Germany
A child led introduction to life on the North Frisian island of Sylt. Sylt is very close to the German mainland and mainland Denmark. Connected by the Hindenburg causeway to the mainland ...