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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 Battle of Tannenberg
Assuming that Russia would need a long time to prepare for war, Chief of the General Staff Alfred Schlieffen devised a strategy that exploited what he saw as Russian backwardness and would enable the German army to fight and win a war on two fronts. [...]
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