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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.
40th anniversary of the DDR
Nothing was going right for the SED in the autumn of 1989. Whilst the DDR economy was in its death throes, and tens of thousands of East Germans were trying to flee to the West via Hungary and Czechoslovakia, many of those who had chosen to stay took to the streets every Monday to protest. [...]
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