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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.
West Germany’s last execution
Richard Schuh (born 1920) eked out a living with odd jobs after his release from American captivity after the Second World War. Always short of money, he murdered a lorry driver on 28 January 1948 in order to take the vehicle’s tyres and sell them on the black market. Schuh was soon tracked down, tried and sentenced to death. [...]
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