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Population 2.6 million.Area 24,479 sq. km.Largest of Germany’s new states, but low in population due to losing its traditional capital, Berlin.

Famous Facts

J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are now celebrated with a two-week festival in Potsdam.

 

Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis was shot in Potsdam in 1927.

 

The Nazis opened the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in a disused brewery in Sachsenhausen where 100,000 “undesirables” were murdered.

 

Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel spent their summers in Buckow. ... >> more