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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 Nazi “seizure of power”
Whilst a global economic crisis had plunged the Weimar Republic into severe economic turmoil, the election of July 1932 translated economic crisis into political disaster. With the democratic parties now in the minority in Parliament, President Hindenburg appointed Franz von Papen to lead a minority government that ruled by presidential decree. [...]
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