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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 liberation of Auschwitz
Jan
27
1945
Today
The liberation of Auschwitz
There was no place for Jews in Hitler’s plans for Europe, and the Third Reich set up a system of death camps to murder them all. Built in south-west Poland in 1941, Auschwitz-Birkenau later became a symbol for this Holocaust or Shoah. [...]
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