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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.
Return after 11 years
Well over three million German prisoners of war (POWs) were being held in Soviet camps by 1945. Whilst some two million had returned home by the early 1950s, the fate of many others remained a matter of uncertainty. When he was invited to Moscow for talks in September 1955, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took the opportunity to negotiate the return of around 10,000 POWs. [...]
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