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Nov 21, 2009 -
When the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago last week, East and West Germany had to integrate two very different cultures. Freedom may have spread quickly through the East, but nudity — the East's favorite and perhaps only freedom — never caught on in the West.
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or liberal body culture, was really the only way to rebel in the East, where the most quotidian details of people's lives were observed by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.
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Oct 12, 2009 -
"No one wants to see curvy women. You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly."
— Karl Lagerfeld weighs in on the never-ending debate about thin models.
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Oct 08, 2009 -
- After appointing the country's third openly gay US ambassador, Obama plans to deliver a "big gay rights speech" on Saturday. — Huffington Post
- Romanian-born German Herta Müller has won the Nobel Prize for literature for her novels, poems, and stories depicting repression in Romania. —
New York Times
- Harvard has been ranked the world's top school.
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Sep 08, 2009 -
Did you just lose your lunch looking at this ad? I almost did when I first saw it. The creators of the nightmarish German AIDS awareness ad say that they "knew the face we gave to the illness could not be a pretty one" — and what's uglier than having sex with Adolf Hitler?
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Feb 05, 2009 -
The hunt for Germany's most wanted Nazi, Aribert Heim (aka Dr. Death for his "medical" procedures) began in 1962 after he barely escaped capture. It only ended recently when a briefcase containing the details of his post-Nazi life and death was found in a hotel where he lived in Cairo.
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Jul 10, 2008 -
If you ever wanted to hear the Harry and the Hendersons theme song in German, you're in luck! This television show was a spin-off of a movie starring John Lithgow about a family that stumbles into the Sasquatch on a trip and decides to take it home and let it live in their house. (Who says it's hard to break into Hollywood if someone got this screenplay green-lighted?
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