Dresden Basin between 2004 and 2009 by UNESCO due to their cultural and natural significance. During the East German era, the Basin was jokingly referred to by its inhabitants as the Valley of the Clueless, because they were not able to receive West German television until the late 1980s, and then only patchily. The most important towns and cities are (in downstream order): Dresden Basin The Dresden Basin ( or "Dresdner Elbtalweitung") is a roughly 45 km long and 10 km wide area of the Elbe Valley between the towns of Pirna and Meißen. The city of Dresden lies in the Dresden
Hamburg Police the development up to the North Sea flood of 1962 and the following incorporation of the police into the State Ministry of the Interior. On 3 May 1945, the first order for the police force in Hamburg by the "609 Detachment Hansestadt Hamburg", the military administrative government for Hamburg, was to stand by armed. On 7 May 1945, precise regulations for the German police offices were published. In 1945 head of the police was the British Colonel Michel O'Rorke, chief of the "Public Safety Branch". At the beginning of May 1945, the police force had 1,720 active officers, 3,456 reserve