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A highly ambigiousambiguous legal status. Technically under Allied occupation [[wikipedia:Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany|until 1990]], the German Basic Law didn't apply there. West Berlin was pretty much the 11th state of [[West Germany]], with West German treating all West Berliners (and East Germans too, which is why so many tried to cross [[The Berlin Wall]]) as German citizens. However, the city was exempt from conscription, which attracted a counter-culture there and West German airlines weren't allowed to fly there as the three air corridors linking West Germany and West Berlin were for British, French and US planes only. The East Germans wouldn't let them use their airspace either, claiming the Lufthansa name for themselves - see [[East Germany]].

During the 19th and the 20th century, black coal was mined in the area framed by the Rhine's tributaries ''Ruhr'' and ''Lippe'', luring other industies such as metallurgy into said area. The ''Pott'' developed into the "industrial backbone" of Germany. It is currently seeking to redefine itself after the decline of its "traditional" mining-industries, for example by luring in newer industry-branches. And by encouraging tourism: Old [[wikipedia:Gasometer Oberhausen|gasometers]] or [[wikipedia:Filemedia:Zollverein Schacht 12.jpg|pit heads]] are treated as [[Eiffel Tower Effect|the Ruhr-area's answer to the Eiffel Tower or the Brandenburg Gate.]] Also, home of two famous [[The Rival|(of course rivaling)]] football teams: ''Borussia Dortmund'' and ''Schalke 04''. (Schalke is a quarter of Gelsenkirchen.)

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After the war, Saarland was actually placed under French control, but was handed back in 1957 (it had been under de facto French adminstrationadministration from 1920 to 1935). Smallest of the non-city states, French is the most common foreign language here. Tried to qualify for the 1954 World Cup, and came second in their group... to the West Germans.

* Capital of the United States of Europe in [[1632]].

Schleswig-Holstein is the northern most German state and part of the Jutland or Cimbrian peninsula with the rest of it taken up by Danish Jutland. Danish flags are not uncommon as the land was both German and Danish, the question has much to do with how the King of Denmark<ref> Since the middle ages, the Danish royal house is a branch of the German house of Oldenburg or Schleswig-Holstein, other branches of which ruled in the duchy of Oldenburg and, since Peter III, in Russia. [[The House of Windsor]] will technically be part of this House upon the death of Elizabeth II, as her late husband, Prince Philip, iswas a member, and [[Lineage Comes From the Father|house membership passes through the male line]]; however, nobody except royalty nerds really care.</ref> was also the Duke of Schleswig and Holstein and had a seat in the old [[Holy Roman Empire]] as the latter. In the late middle ages the city Lübeck (then a free city) was the second largest city in Germany and later the capital of the [[Hanseatic League]] that controlled most trade on the Baltic Sea. Even today, Schleswig-Holstein has many cultural similarities with neighboring Denmark and Sweden, arguably even much more than with other German states like Bavaria or Saxony. This however is partly due to the considerable cultural influence of Germany and Northern Germany in particular on Scandinavia. Transport is a major function of the area. A canal goes between the Baltic and North Sea saving hundreds of miles going around Jutland.

The state capital. A port city, which played a part in the end of [[World War OneI]]. The German Navy at Kiel was ordered on what was essentially a suicide mission, but refused to leave. It has the largest shipyard in Germany, which produces many of Germany's modern ships and submarines. Germany does some rather good diesel U-boats, in fact (they sell them around the world--and occasionally donate them to the [[Israelis With Infrared Missiles]], whom some claim have equipped them with [[Nuke'Em|nuclear warheads]]).

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