A hilly region of western Germany west of the Rhine River. The barren area has limestone moors and crater lakes.

位于德国西部的莱茵河西岸的丘陵地带，土地贫瘠，有石灰岩泥沼和火口湖。

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Germany is the largest giver of aid among the wealthy countries of the West.

德国是西方富有国家中最大援助的给予国。

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In 1966, 1974 and 1978, the home teams of England, West Germany and Argentina all won the World Cup.

1966年、1974年和1978年，英格兰、西德和阿根廷作为东道主队都赢得了世界杯。

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He gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall that divided Soviet-controlled East Germany from West Germany.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

The Wall stood for nearly three decades, dividing the city and Germany into East and West.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

They were inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall a week earlier, which had divided East and West Germany for more than a quarter of a century.

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In 1989, East Germans on foot and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East German government threw open its border to the West.

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On July 24th, 1948, the Soviets closed the rail and road links between western Germany and west Berlin, located deep within the Soviet zone.

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Instead, Kohl's government mistakenly imposed an absolutely unaffordable welfare- state structure, including too-heavy taxes, on the former East Germany, making impossible the kind of resurgence West Germany experienced after Erhard's reforms.

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