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Tractors at the gates

The halls are decked with flowers and loops of sausages and salami hang from the rafters. There are baby farm animals to cluck at and grown men show off hairy, winter-white thighs in their embroidered leather shorts. Yes, indeed, this is how the German countryside comes to town for Berlin’s annual “Grüne Woche” or “Green Week” trade fair.

Only this year, the

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