A city of east-central Germany north-northeast of Dresden. It was chartered in 1371 and today has a major glassmaking industry. Population, 70,698.

霍耶斯违达：德国中东部的城市，位于德罗斯顿东北偏北。它于1371年取得自治权，现在它是一个主要的玻璃制造工业中心。人口70，698。

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A city of east-central Germany north of Leipzig. It was the site of the Bauhaus school headed by Walter Gropius from 1925 to 1932. Population, 103,738.

德国中东部位于莱比锡北部的一座城市。在1925年到1932年它是华特·葛罗培斯主持的包豪斯建筑学院的所在地。人口103，738。

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Passengers will ultimately be able to speed from the Italian city of Milan to Zurich in less than three hours and further north into Germany, cutting the journey time by an hour.

旅客们最终将可能把从意大利城市米兰到苏黎世的旅程缩短到三小时以内，而且能进一步北上德国，将路程时间缩短整整一个小时。

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Hitler could not strengthen his forces in North Africa and Italy, because Germany also was fighting hard in the Soviet Union.

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In the end, operations in Germany, North America and Britain were sold to Air Liquide, to make it the biggest industrial-gas producer in Europe.

ECONOMIST: Face value

In Grossbasel, the Altstadt (Old Town) charms with its 15th- and 16th-century architecture, including many half-timbered houses, a common architectural style in the German-speaking areas (of both Switzerland and Germany) north of the Alps.

BBC: Undiscovered Basel

On Wednesday the state's Consumer Affairs Minister, Johannes Remmel, said that "after analysing the data we have learned that through a middleman in Luxembourg, a significant amount of goods has been shipped to Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia, and those goods are suspected, and I repeat only suspected, to have not been properly labelled".

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