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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 Basic Treaty
Dec
21
1972
Today
The Basic Treaty
West Germany’s “New Ostpolitik”, launched by Chancellor Willy Brandt in the early 1970s, involved abandoning the Hallstein Doctrine – the Federal Republic’s claim to be the sole representative of the German nation – and accepting the DDR’s right to exist. [...]
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