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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 Hanau massacre
Despite a long history of mental illness, Tobias Rathjen was still the legal owner of multiple firearms. Over several years, he developed a set of racist and xenophobic theories that persuaded him of the pressing need to destroy the “enemies of the German people”. [...]
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