Noblesse oblige returns to Eastern Germany
13th Nov 2006, 18:08 GMT
In the depressed hinterlands of Eastern Germany, scores of gentry are quietly returning to hard-luck realms, buying back from governmental agencies and other quasi-public holders the lands, buildings and, yes, castles that would have been their inheritances, had history not intervened.
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