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The Feldmer brothers are making charcoal in the traditional way of the Harz Mountains

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Immo Feldmer carefully tipped smouldering charcoal into a tall mound of earth, initiating an ancient tradition of coal burning that has endured for centuries in Germany's Harz mountain region.