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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.
The Battle of Britain
The spring of 1940 saw the victorious Wehrmacht scythe a path across Europe, encircling the French and Belgian forces and threatening to cut off the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from the ports that connected it to its island home. [...]
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