Germany

Highlights from the album.

Photos taken along the highway.

Bayreuth hosts an annual festival, at which operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.

Berchtesgaden served as an important part of U.S. Armed Forces Recreation Centers.

Photos from when Germany was still divided after World War II and Grandpa Roy was stationed in the western sector of the divided city of Berlin from 1971 to 1974.

Albums are arranged pretty much in the order visited. Not true for Berlin, however. After Arrival in Berlin, albums are in alphabetic order.
Translations from Russian were done by Grandpa Roy. Those from German were made using Google Translate and edited by Grandpa Roy.

A short visit in 1973 with Great Grandma Teenie.

It was forbidden for military personnel to get closer than 1 kilometer from the borders with Czechoslovakia and Communist East Germany.

The infamous Nazi concentration camp.

Ebrach

Sites and locations in the Franconian Alps in Bavaria, also known as Franconian Switzerland not otherwise shown.

Grandpa Roy visited Frankfurt in 1963 when he went to visit your Great Great Grandma Sarah Miller's friend Dick Banbury who lived there.

Where witches were supposed to have dwelled. Visited in 1972.

Grandpa Roy was stationed here for about 9 or 10 months, 1970-1971. They were closing the base. He transferred to West Berlin in 1971.

The only palace or castle that Ludwig II had built that he lived to see it completed.

A small town in the Franconian Alps.

Mittenwald is in Bavaria, near Garmisch. The town is known for the manufacture of violins, violas and cellos which began in the mid-17th century.

Miscellaneous photographs of monuments and statues not in other parts of the album.

Munich is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria, as well as home of the famed October Fest.

The war crime trials were held here after World War II.

Grandpa Roy went on a Volkesmarche in October 1992 when he was in Germany to deploy for Arms Control inspections under the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty.