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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.
Execution of the Scholl siblings
Three members of the White Rose resistance group are executed The winter of 1942/43 saw siblings Hans (24) and Sophie Scholl (21) take part in the protest actions of a Munich student resistance group called the White Rose. Motivated by their Christian and humanist beliefs, the group distributed leaflets calling on Germans to resist the Third Reich and oppose the war that it had unleashed[...]
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