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U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany - Home About UsU.S. Citizen ServicesVisas to the U.S.U.S. Policy & IssuesMeet the USATrade & CommerceDeutsch In Focus Ernst Cramer Recalls Original U.S. Embassy on Pariser Platz Ernst Cramer April 17, 2008. In preparation for the opening of the new chancery on Pariser Platz, the Embassy in Berlin is producing a short video on the history of U.S. diplomatic representation in Germany. Prominent journalist and holocaust survivor Ernst Cramer sat down with Public Affairs staff to share his memories of the U.S. presence in Berlin. Following internment at Buchenwald concentration camp, he was granted a U.S. visa at the Embassy on Pariser Platz and eventually became (and remains) a U.S. citizen. In the interview, he described his 1939 visit to the Embassy where he "felt like a human being" again, his experiences as a U.S. soldier during the war, and his relationship to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin over the last sixty years. Photo Gallery News from the Embassy German Minister of Defense and U.S. Ambassador Visit Landstuhl Regional Medical Center April 11, 2008. U.S. Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr. and German Minister of Defense Dr. Franz Josef Jung visited the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on April 11. For Defense Minister Jung it was his first visit to the largest American hospital outside the United States. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center provides care for military personnel and their families within the European Command, and is also the evacuation and treatment center for all injured U.S. service members, contractors and members of the coalition forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The following day, Ambassador Timken and his wife, Sue, visited the German Cancer Research Institute in Heidelberg U.S. Election and the Economy April 4, 2008. The Embassy continued its Election Speaker Series with Susan Alexander, founder and Managing Director of Luxembourg-based Minerva Research & Ad...