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Bitterfeld chemical plant put 10 times as much mercury into the Saale River each day as a comparable West German plant would dump into the Rhine River in a year.
When the German Democratic Republic imploded in 1990, one of the most striking illustrations of its dysfunction was the industrial complex around the cities of
Bitterfeld and Wolfen in Sachsen-Anhalt.
The site is one of three chlorine plants operated by AkzoNobel in Germany, the other two being located in
Bitterfeld and Ibbenbiiren.
Tensions eased in cities upriver along the Elbe and its tributaries, including Dresden, Halle and
Bitterfeld, where many evacuation orders were lifted and people returned to start clearing out their mud-caked homes.
500 soldats aides de milliers de volontaires etaient a pied d'oeuvre pour consolider les digues notamment a
Bitterfeld, Magdeburg.
In
Bitterfeld, patients had to be removed from a hospital as a dyke threatened to burst, and in the nearby medieval city of Magdeburg, flooded roads forced the evacuations of several old people's homes.
Little respite was in sight for residents of another Saxony-Anhalt city,
Bitterfeld, visited Thursday by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, where more residents fled to safety as a lake threatened to flood parts of the city.
In the Saxony-Anhalt city of
Bitterfeld, an attempt to blow open a levee to lower waters threatening the city along the Mulde river was unsuccessful.
His great aunt Ilse Atenstaedt of
Bitterfeld was 40 when she was taken away to be gassed by the National Socialist regime - because she was severely disabled with spina bifida.
One prime example is the investment in a new production facility in
Bitterfeld, Germany, for membrane filtration technology.
Now, in this new book, Maron revisits the site of the industrial nightmare from that novel,
Bitterfeld, a small city in Sachsen-Anhalt.
The company also plans to build a methylhydroxyethylcellulose (MHEC) production plant in
Bitterfeld, Germany.
