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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.
Verdicts in the Wall shooters’ trial
As the crime of murder has no statute of limitations and the shooting of East Germans on the Berlin Wall was illegal even under East German law, West German courts were able to try those responsible for the fatal shots fired between 1961 and 1989. [...]
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