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It marked the moment, 80 years ago, when American and Soviet soldiers met on the Elbe River in the dying days of World War Two.

In Hamburg, the Elbe River flooded streets around the city’s fish market, with water waist-high in places.

Among the resurgent gas projects in Europe is one planned for along the Elbe River near Hamburg that appeared doomed only late last year.

The oldest, in the Elbe River in the Czech Republic, is believed to have been inscribed in 1616.

“We’ve had many crises,” he said, sitting in the company’s branch office in the eastern city of Pirna, overlooking the Elbe River valley.