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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 Leningrad Blockade
After the Wehrmacht had succeeded in surrounding Leningrad (present-day St Petersburg) on three sides by September 1941, Hitler decided that the city would be left to starve rather than risk the high casualties that would have resulted from taking the city by force. [...]
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