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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.

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Traitors to the Third Reich – but not to Germany
Nov 8 2009
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Traitors to the Third Reich – but not to Germany

As part of its preparations for the Second World War, the Third Reich tightened its laws on “war treason”, bringing a wide range of behaviour into the remit of the criminal justice system, with punishments up to and including the death sentence. [...]

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