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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 foundation of the Treuhand
The collapse of communism and the peaceful revolution in the DDR presented the new East German government with a problem: what was to be done with all the state-owned enterprises? Although they were large, unwieldy and ultimately unprofitable, they owned many assets. [...]
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