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Germany's ghost towns

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March 5, 2014

Numerous towns and villages between Cologne, Dusseldorf and Aachen have been abandoned to make way for the region's lignite mining industry. Johannes Twielemeier photographs the towns he calls "lost places" before they're razed.

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