Towns do it, too. On the way to Hungary, Noah and his parents spent a day in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary, which — as Noah’s dad explained as they walked to dinner — used to be a German-speaking town called Karlsbad. Before the Second World War, it had been the sort of place where people went to spend time in spas, to sit in steaming baths and pools. It was the closest city outside Germany to both East Germany and West Germany, so there were a lot of Germans there, people separated by the Wall getting together for a few days for a visit, for news from home, for romance, for long discussions in which somebody would plead with some other body to please, please, please come over the Wall and join them on the other side. Noah’s family got into a cheerful conversation with some of those Germans — the West German kind, sitting over there at the next table, since it wouldn’t be safe for the East German Germans to chat so freely with foreigners. The biggest German guy at that table laughed and said there was a nickname for the city of Karlovy Vary: “The Czech Center for German-German Relations.”
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