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The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories.

Might Thuringia, the land of Weimar and Jena and long the home of Goethe and Schiller, become the very first Left-led state in all Germany? This is a possibility; five years ago the Social Democrats rejected just such a solution - but later came to regret it.