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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.
“Risen from the ruins”
The rulers of the newly formed DDR very soon realized that it did not have a national anthem to sing at important state occasions and therefore commissioned the poet Johannes Becher to compose the text of a national anthem for East Germany. [...]
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