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  • After the Swiss Alps had been discovered for them, people began to feel interest in their native mountains; Zimmermann led the way with his observations on a journey in the Harz 1775, and Gatterer in 1785 published _A Guide to Travelling in the Harz_ in five volumes.

    The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

  • The Harz were a popular place for the middle class to get away from it all.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Germany and Austria immediately protested, as several varieties of similar cheese - known as Harz cheese, after the mountain range - is produced there too.

    Latest articles - Radio Prague 2010

  • The jobless are punished for their "anti-economic behavior" by a law known as Harz IV - named after its author, Peter Harz,

    CounterPunch 2009

  • He was captured by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent first to Buchenwald and then north to the satellite camp at Dora-Mittelbau in the Harz Mountains where he labored in the underground work camp manufacturing, among other things, the V-2 rockets Hitler hoped would save his war effort.

    The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

  • The two American bases were almost three hundred miles from Berlin, ninety minutes of flying time, and the southern flight corridor from those fields passed over the five-thousand-foot-high Harz mountain range.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.

    Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010

  • Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.

    Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010

  • Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.

    Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010

  • [3.50 Euro] and must depend on Harz IV funds [government assistance funds established only to be transitional but have not been] to get by.

    INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE NEEDED IN GERMANY--and elsewhere���NOW 2009

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