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 th... [More]