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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.

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Children for the Führer
Dec 12 1935
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Children for the Führer

The mass deaths of the First World War coupled with the social and economic dislocation of the post-war period resulted in a significant decline in the German birth rate during the Weimar Republic. [...]

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