A short contemporary-historical excursion.

The German-Afghan friendship has a long tradition that reaches back to the empire before the first World War. Afghanistan has always been one of the most important Central Asian partners - also of the Federal Republic of Germany after 1949 – in education, trade and on many related fields.
The first project of the ARG, the Pavillon Kuti-e-Boghtscha in Kabul symbolizes the beginning of the German-Afghan friendship. This building from 1880, that can be called the cradle of the Afghan democracy had also been planned and realized with German architects.

The pictures of the totally ruined Darulaman – the destroyed Royal Palace, that was built by the German architect Walter Harten in the 1920ies on behalf of King Amanullah and the treeless former boulevard – tell a lot about the state of the collective memory of the Afghan people.