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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 wrapping of the Reichstag

The neo-Renaissance palace built in Berlin between 1884 and 1894 to house the parliament of a newly united Germany retained its function under the Weimar Republic. Damaged by fire in 1933 and allied bombing during the Second World War, the Reichstag building was restored in a modernized form in the 1960s. [...]

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