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The formation of the Alps

The Alps are Central Europe's highest mountains, towering as high as 4800 meters. Today, mainly the harsh weather shapes the Alps. But the forces that formed these mountains came from within the Earth. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Bilderfest/Florian Breier, Christian Stiefenhofer/Michi Kern/Klaus Wache/Tob

The expansion of the proto-Germanic peoples

The ancestors of the Germanic peoples probably lived in Eurasia. Around 1000 BC., some of them reached the settlement area between the Baltic Sea and the Alps, and throughout centuries, they even reached the Danube, the Vistula and Scandinavia Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah