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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 end of the war that was supposed to end all wars

As the military situation had become hopeless for Germany, the Supreme Army Command (OHL) moved in early autumn 1918 to demand that a new democratic government be convened to conclude an armistice with the Western powers. [...]

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