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Photographs taken by Grandpa Roy, some when he was stationed there 1970-1974, and others in 1992 when he went to Germany as a part-time arms control inspector.
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Highlights

Highlights from the album.

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The Alps

Photos taken along the highway.

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Auto & Technik Museum

Sinsheim, Germany.
A true "Man's Museum," it even had a complete display of Stihl chainsaws Visited August or early September 1995.

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Bamberg

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Bayreuth

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

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Berchtesgaden

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

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Berlin

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.

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Castles & Ruins

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Cologne

A short visit in 1973 with Great Grandma Teenie.

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Czech Border Region

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

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Dachau

The infamous Nazi concentration camp.

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Ebrach

Ebrach

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Franconian Alps

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

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Frankfurt

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

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Harz Mountains

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

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Hof Saale

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.

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Linderhof

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

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Marktbreit

A small town in the Franconian Alps.

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Mittenwald

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.

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Monuments and Statues

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

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Munich

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

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Nuremberg

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

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Volksmarche

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.

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