From Freiburg to Tilsit

Nice map of Das Deutsche Reich (1871-1918) linked below, about a thousand miles end-to-end.  Could've been a great country, if they'd valued what they had, understood their limitations, not elected insane people...

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Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me, would we, could we

Mem'ries may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember 
We simply choose to forget

So it's the laughter we will remember
Whenever we remember the way we were