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Extract from the Brandenburg Travel Guides:
BRANDENBURG
, the city from which the province takes its name, lies on the main Berlin-Hannover rail line just over 30km west of Potsdam. For all its illustrious past - it was founded by the Slavs in the sixth century, made the seat of a precarious missionary German bishopric in the tenth century, before becoming the capital of the Margravate established by Albert the Bear in 1157 - its more recent history has been a catalogue of misfortunes. These began when the Nazis chose it as the site of a concentration camp; future GDR dictator Erich Honecker served twelve years there, and among those murdered were 10,000 victims of a compulsory euthana...
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