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365 days of German history

Every day is historic! Do you want to know which key events took place in history on your date of birth? Or are you preparing for the next school presentation or Trivial Pursuit evening? The historical calendar from the Deutschlandmuseum shows you what happened in German history on each day of the year: major events, historical anniversaries, significant inventions, important birthdays and much more.

Spy trade on the “Bridge of Spies”

The Cold War was fought in Europe as an intelligence war, and many of the spies deployed by communist and capitalist powers were exposed and arrested. [...]

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