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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 highpoint of the Easter riots

The pan-European left-wing student movement reached its high point in 1968. Whilst the youth of the world was angry with capitalism in general and the Vietnam War in particular, the German branch of the student revolt also focussed on the Nazi past of certain influential Germans and plans to enact emergency laws, which many saw as a new Enabling Act. [...]

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