Germania | Simon WinderThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants' penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And

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he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all

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would be identified and a climate of panic and fear would spread across the nation

from disco at Studio One to Britpop at Popstarz

J Dilla has become a demigod

that work on ranches

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whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with

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