The country with one people and 1200 sausages
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29 September 2014
Last updated at 01:18
By Neil MacGregor
Director, British Museum
The Oktoberfest is the largest popular festival in the world - larger, it's claimed, than Mardi Gras in New Orleans or Carnival in Rio. Created by Bavarian King Ludwig I to celebrate his wedding in 1810, it encapsulates German-ness in a way everyone can engage with - and every Read more [...]